"In a mystery, you must play fair by giving all the clues, but disguise them by immediately distracting the reader with something else."

-- Joan Lowery Nixon

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“I'm not so sure that horror should be dismissed as something less than literature.”
“When people fall in love, they burst into flames.”

Source : Jandy Nelson (2014). “I'll Give You the Sun”, p.15, Penguin
“Case studies of failure should be made a part of the vocabulary of every engineer so that he or she can recall or recite them when something in a new design or design process is suggestive of what went wrong in the case study.”

Source : "ASK OCE Interview: Five Questions for Dr. Henry Petroski". Interview with Henry Petroski, appel.nasa.gov. July 20, 2006.
“My favorite place is Central Park because you never know what you're going to find there. I also like that when I look out the windows of surrounding hotels, it's seems like I'm looking out over a forest.”
“In the kingdom of consumption the citizen is king. A democratic monarchy: equality before consumption, fraternity in consumption, and freedom through consumption.”
“Damn it, when I'm bombastic, I have my reasons. I want to be bombastic-take it or leave it.”

Source : Doug Ramsey, Dave Brubeck, Iola Brubeck, Paul Caulfield (2005). “Take five: the public and private lives of Paul Desmond”, Parkside Pubns
“I had a 20-year, stellar government career.”

Source : "Linda Tripp on 'Larry King Live'". www.cnn.com. February 9, 2001.
“Is there a God? No. God is a verb, not a noun.”

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