"I don't feel the need to prove myself by writing the next generational novel."

-- Camilla Lackberg

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“Can you see through the night, woman, that you stare so upon it? Man, what sparks do your eyes follow in the smouldering darkness?”
“After all, when a stone is dropped into a pond, the water continues quivering even after the stone has sunk to the bottom.”

Source : "Memoirs of a Geisha". Book by Arthur Golden, September 27, 1997.
“Billions of years ago God was creating universes and life; thousands of years ago he was creating angry floods, sin-saving human sacrifices and audible burning bushes. Today he occasionally appears on a piece of toast. To state that God has become reclusive over the years would be an overwhelming understatement.”

Source : Trevor Treharne (2012). “How to Prove God Does Not Exist: The Complete Guide to Validating Atheism”, p.246, Universal-Publishers
“Women hock their jewels and their husbands' insurance policies to acquire an unaccustomed shade in hair or crÃªpe de chine. Why then is it that when anyone commits anything novel in the arts he should be always greeted by this same peevish howl of pain and surprise? One is led to suspect that the interest people show in these much talked of commodities, painting, music, and writing, cannot be very deep or very genuine when they so wince under an unexpected impact.”
“Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?”
“I think I'm an abstinence symbol. If I take my shirt off, people will not have babies.”
“The fundamental basis is this: Socialism requires that government becomes your God. That's why they have to destroy the concept of God. They have to destroy all loyalties except loyalty to the government.”
“Man is many things, but he is not rational.”

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