"No, you canâ€™t force other people to change. You can, however, change just about everything else. And usually, thatâ€™s enough."

-- Aaron Swartz

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“A novel must give a sense of permanence as well as a sense of life.”
“The ornament of beauty, Shakespeare wrote, is suspect. And he was right. But beauty itself, unadorned and unaffected, is sacred, I think, worthy of our awe and our loyalty.”
“I burn so many calories when I work out that I don't really count calories or necessarily try and stay away from anything.”
“Well, I couldn't do the day-to-day stuff of being a politician or anything, but I just think everybody should have an opinion and everybody should vote, and that's what we're built on.”
“I tell the stories in front of audiences and wait for something to happen. It's similar to a standup comic doing his schtick for an audience.”

Source : Source: www.teachingbooks.net
“I've learned a lot about language from reading slush. You can immediately tell if a writer is in control of the narrative. This writer will avoid using too many words like "possibly," "probably," "maybe," "perhaps," etc. He/she will avoid using clichÃ©s, as well as a lot of metaphors, and won't take four sentences to say what they could in one (or write a great sentence and follow it up with a bunch of stuff that just weakens it).”
“Remembering a man's stories makes him immortal.”

Source : Daniel Wallace (1999). “Big Fish: A Novel of Mythic Proportions”, Penguin Group USA
“I think it's maybe because Sergeant Pepper's came out when I was about 13 or 14 and that was a pretty impressionable age, and it was such a kind of radical period. But that period of the Beatles really had a big influence on me and I think are directly related to hyperinstruments.”

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