"I can't exist without books."

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Source : Ruth Rendell (1993). “The crocodile bird”, Crown Pub

Ruth Rendell

“I just think too many nice things have happened in string theory for it to be all wrong. Humans do not understand it very well, but I just dont believe there is a big cosmic conspiracy that created this incredible thing that has nothing to do with the real world.”

Source : "Physics' sharpest mind since Einstein" by Candy Crowley, www.cnn.com. July 5, 2005.
“When they call the slightest spending reductions 'painful', we will say 'If government spending prevents pain, why are we suffering so much of it?' And 'If you want to experience real pain, just stay on the track we are on.'”

Source : Keynote Speech to the Conservative Political Action Committee, delivered 11 February 2011, Ronald Reagan Centennial Dinner, Washington, D.C.
“I want to turn the whole thing upside down I'll find the things they say just can't be found I'll share the love I find with everyone We'll sing and dance to Mother Nature's song I don't want this feeling to go away.”
“When you're doing something you're passionate about, stress becomes a featurenot a bug.”
“Tomorrow's sun is on it's way - a relentless sun, inscrutable like life.”

Source : Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (2010). “The Devil's Church and Other Stories”, p.77, University of Texas Press
“One of my favorite things on the show was just getting to do my own monologue and talking about someone who killed themselves, or making a joke about some horrible tragedy - I love being able to fight for and get on TV. I just think it's so different.”
“It was either Voltaire or Charlie Sheen who said, 'We are born alone. We live alone. We die alone. And anything in between that can give us the illusion that we're not, we cling to.'”
“In a somer seson, whan softe was the sonne, I shoop me into shroudes as I a sheep were, In habite an heremite unholy of werkes, Went wide in this world wondres to here.”

Source : c.1377 Piers Plowman (B text), prologue, l.1-4. (shoop = got, shroudes = garments)

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