"When I'm up for an award, there are usually two or three other things on the ballot that I like better than my own fiction."

-- Kelly Link

#Awards Quotes #Two Quotes #Three Quotes

“The forests have taught man liberty.”

Source : "Cosmopolis". Ch. 2 "The Beginning of a Drama". Book by Paul Bourget, 1892.
“A smattering of everything is worth little. It is a fallacy to suppose that an encyclopaedic knowledge is desirable. The mind is made strong, not through much learning, but by the thorough possession of something.”
“We all know that Social Security is one of this country's greatest success stories in the 20th century.”
“I'm a lot easier to work with now than I have been in the past, for sure.”
“At the end of the day, tech workers are not robots: they feel, they think, they have values.”

Source : "Mayor Ed Lee: ‘Tech Workers Are Not Robots’". Interview with Willy Staley, www.nytimes.com. November 12, 2013.
“We need to defend the interests of those whom we've never met and never will.”
“The mechanism of primary emotions does not describe the full range of emotional behaviors. They are, to be sure, the basic mechanism. However, I believe that in terms of an individual's development they are followed by mechanisms of secondary emotions, which occur once we begin experiencing feelings and forming systematic connections between categories of objects and situations, on the one hand, and primary emotions, on the other.”
“In Moscow I feel most comfortable. I'm used to four different seasons; it's difficult for people in London to understand. People brought up in Russia like my kids want to play in the snow.”

Source : "Inside the hidden world of Roman's empire". Interview with David Smith, www.theguardian.com. December 23, 2006.

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