"Keep people from their history, and they are easily controlled."

“Throwaway pens are no good - I never liked them. I've tried them all.”
“The more generous we are, the more joyous we become. The more cooperative we are, the more valuable we become. The more enthusiastic we are, the more productive we become. The more serving we are, the more prosperous we become.”
“We have to be back in three hours', Ronan said. 'I just fed Chainsaw but she'll need it again.' 'This', Gansey replied, 'is precisely why I didn't want to have a baby with you.”
“Without fear and disease, my life would be like a boat without oars.”
“In Hollywood there's a great openness, almost a voracious appetite for new people. In England there's a great suspicion of the new. In cultural terms, that can be a good thing, but when you're trying to break into the film industry, it's definitely a bad thing.”
“Oh, you think the darkness is your ally, but you merely adopted the dark. I was born in it. Molded by it.”
“I handed the test in five minutes before the end of the day. Mrs. Baker took it calmly, then reached into her bottom drawer for an enormous red pen with a wide felt tip. "Stand here and we'll see how you've done," she said, which is sort of like a dentist handing you a mirror and saying, "Sit here and watch while I drill a hole in your tooth.”

Source : Gary D. Schmidt (2009). “The Wednesday Wars”, p.60, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“The ultimate inspiration is the deadline.”

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