"All things are at odds when God sets a thinker loose on the planet"

-- Edith Hamilton

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“Oh, the terrible struggle that I have had against sleep so often of late; the pain of the sleeplessness, or the pain of the fear of sleep, and with such unknown horror as it has for me! How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.”

Source : Bram Stoker (2015). “Classic Horror Collection: Dracula, Frankenstein, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Jekyll and Hyde, & The Island of Dr. Moreau”, p.134, Xist Publishing
“I have no particular talent. I am merely inquisitive.”
“I turned to the Times crossword puzzle and asked Kate, â€œWhatâ€™s the definition of a moderate Arab?â€ â€œI donâ€™t know.â€ â€œA guy who ran out of ammunition.”

Source : Nelson DeMille (2008). “Wild Fire: Number 4 in series”, p.118, Hachette UK
“In an age of global standardization, regional voices also remind both writer and reader that no life is lived generically. If the purpose of literature is truly, as the ancients insisted, to instruct and delight, then what better to understand and enjoy than the here and the now ?”
“Women who bear children before they establish serious habits of work, may never establish them at all.”
“It seems to rise again when the crisis times come, and this is a time of most severe crisis, as we all know, not just for the history of the United States and the survival indeed of our democracy, but for the future peace of the world. And never before probably has the need for interfaith commitment been nearly as great as it is at this very moment.”
“The forty-four-hour week has no charm for me. I'm looking for a forty-hour day.”
“There is a reality to the way the actors play the scenes, given that there is a real, animatronic, moving robot in the room. So the level of nuance and realism in performance was higher because we built the real ones, and it keeps the visual effects guys honest.”

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