"Are we absolutely certain that Becky Albertalli didn't just steal the diary of a hilariously observant teenage boy? Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda is a pitch-perfect triumph of wit and wordplay that feels timelessly, effortlessly now."

-- Tim Federle

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“I'm not making art, I'm making sushi”
“History is so full of high-level intelligence officials who actually worked for the other side that one is forced to conclude that whether or not top intelligence jobs attract the disloyal, they surely offer incentives to disloyalty.”

Source : Informing Statecraft (1992).
“Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning.”
“I'm offended by the kind of smarmy religiosity that's all around us, perhaps more in America than in Europe, and not really that harmful because it's not really that intense or even that serious, but just... you know after a while you get tired of hearing clergymen giving the invocation at various public celebrations and you feel, haven't we outgrown all this? Do we have to listen to this?”
“How does a weaker minority dominate a physically superior majority? In my research I learned that this is accomplished by destroying the slaveâ€™s mind. More effective than whips and guns was the simple act of outlawing the teaching of slaves to read and to write.”

Source : Kyle Baker (2015). “Nat Turner”, p.7, Abrams
“When your spirit is alive, when somebody has got a strong spirit, they could be on the verge of death physically, and they'll leak out more life.”
“These days people believe they can go into art and make a living. We didn't have that. The abstract expressionists were older, by the time they even got a show. Now people come right out of school and sell.”
“Right now, offline and online are coming together because of smartphones.”

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