"Love affair. Doesn't that sound so middle-aged? And also ill-fated. Like ill-fated is an understood prefix to love affair. Well, ill-fated is fine, as long as it's a meaty and fraught ill-fated love affair, not a pale and insipid one."

-- Laini Taylor

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“You know, quarterbacks, I think greatness in quarterbacks is taking what you've got, whether it's a great team, a good team, or a struggling team and make them better.”

Source : "Ryan Michael's Exclusive Interview with Vikings HOF Quarterback: Fran Tarkenton". bleacherreport.com. January 30, 2010.
“Engagement is not appeasement. Engagement is not surrender.”

Source : "Hagel emerges from grueling confirmation hearing with solid Dem support for Pentagon job", www.foxnews.com. February 1, 2013.
“Recognition of the modes of existence of technical objects must be the result of philosophic consideration; what philosophy has to achieve in this respect is analogous to what the abolition of slavery achieved in affirming the worth of the individual human being.”

Source : "On the Mode of Existence of Technical Objects". Book by Gilbert Simondon, University of Western Ontario, June 1980.
“Sampling, statisticians have told us, is a much more effective way of getting a good census.”
“I read once that [Pablo] Picasso felt if an artist ever felt totally satisfied with a work she ceased to be an artist. With that in mind, it seems like goals are a terrible idea then.”

Source : Source: blog.ourvinyl.tv
“Her faith in a loving and forgiving God is strong, but she worships laughter.”

Source : Miriam Toews (2013). “Swing Low”, p.72, Faber & Faber
“Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the writing done, no shortcut. The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error. The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the old writer, he wants to beat him.”
“I think the English are bipolar. 'We're the greatest, no we're terrible' - that's a constant English struggle. Crime is down, there's little poverty - yet it's always the worst time to have lived here.”

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