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“Time and death sleep side by side.”
Source : Garth Nix (2014). “Abhorsen”, p.36, Hot Key Books
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“Thinking, or more precisely identification with thinking, gives rise to and maintains the ego, which, in our Western society in particular, is out of control. It believes it is real and tries hard to maintain its supremacy. Negative states of mind, such as anger, resentment, fear, envy, and jealousy, are products of the ego.”
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“One does not have humor. It has you.”
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“By measuring individual human worth, the novelist reveals the full enormity of the State”
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“The grand reason of the burst of public sentiment in anathemas upon Christ and his disciples, causing his crucifixion, was evidently based upon polygamy, according to the testimony of the philosophers who rose in that age. A belief in the doctrine of a plurality of wives caused the persecution of Jesus and his followers. We might almost think they were 'Mormons.'”
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“People who eat white bread have no dreams.”
Source : Quoted in Annette Tapert and Diana Edkins The Power of Style (1994).
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“I'm reading Our Ecstatic Days, by Steve Erickson. It's an extraordinary journey and the most exciting thing I've found since The Master and Margarita, which I've read about 20 times. I like being taken away somewhere by a book.”
Source : "My Life in Travel" by Sophie Lam, www.independent.co.uk. May 27, 2005. 
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“It's harder than you might think to squander millions of dollars, but a flawed software development process is a tool well suited to the job.”
Source : Alan Cooper (1999). “The Inmates are Running the Asylum”, Sams Publishing
