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“All high truth is poetry. Take the results of science: they glow with beauty, cold and hard as are the methods of reaching them.”
Source : Charles Buxton, John Llewelyn Davies (1873). “Notes of Thought”
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“So far as good writing goes, the use of the exclamation mark is a sign of failure. It is the literary equivalent of a man holding up a card reading LAUGHTER to a studio audience.”
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“Misattributed to Johann Reiss. Probably by Peter Reiss. Die Chemie ist der unreinliche Teil der Physik. Chemistry is the dirty part of physics.”
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“I think most writers feel like they're on the outside looking in much of the time. All of us feel, to a certain extent, alienated from the stuff going on around us.”
Source : "The Curiously Irresistible Literary Debut of Mark Haddon". PowellsBooks Interview, www.powells.com. October 10, 2006.
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“Really, UCLA's a great place as well, but they don't have the kind of environment they have here. The fans here have a passion.”
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“I was just a goofy little funny kid, who was always getting sent to the principal. It wasn't serious because I was smart. I wasn't like a true troublemaker, just rambunctious - like, talkative and trying to be funny. That was me in middle-school.”
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“Fear could paralyse. Action was the antidote.”
Source : Ken Follett (2008). “Hornet Flight”, p.351, Pan Macmillan
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“I'm not really interested in politics, because I think it's just too removed from my own life. If there's a war, though, or a disaster, I want to know what's happening.”