"Dying makes everyone weaker, subject to painful insight, and not always insight into any kind of special truth - it's just the approaching end that makes people want to believe they are seeing something in the line of a great revelation."

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Source : Jeff Lindsay (2009). “Dexter by Design”, p.109, Hachette UK

Jeff Lindsay

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“In a sense my whole life as a writer is trying to find structural ways, or formal ways, to permit that outflowing so it doesn't just look like crazy output. In other words, if it turns out that you can do a given voice, that's just kind of inclination. But then if you can find a way to put that voice in a story so that the voice serves a purpose, then I would say that's being a writer.”
“Having the ambition of becoming Olympic champion is a whole different ambition from wanting to be the greatest.”

Source : "Don't go nuts, Bolt: Daley Thompson says sprint ace must get head in order" by Alex Spink, www.mirror.co.uk. July 14, 2012.
“Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing.”
“My first playpen was a cardboard box.”
“The backseat produced the sexual revolution.”
“If possessing a higher degree of intelligence does not entitle one human to use another for his or her own ends, how can it entitle humans to exploit non-humans?”

Source : Peter Singer (2015). “Animal Liberation”, p.31, Random House
“Inspired by words you have to create images to tell the story, while it's much more difficult to find your own images with a film for inspiration, because someone has already done it for you.”
“Be careful how quickly you give away your fire.”

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