"I propose getting rid of conventional armaments and replacing them with reasonably priced hydrogen bombs that will be distributed equally throughout the world."

-- Idi Amin

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“Telling writers to shut up is a sure way to keep them talking.”
“Music. Close your eyes and it's a rosebush blooming in time lapse so that it shoots and blossoms flow outward in a swift choreography of growth and collapse, twine and coil, release and fade. Close your eyes and music paints light vines and calligraphy on the darkness within you.”
“Sometimes the best answers to prayer are the ones God doesn't answer.”
“My reluctance to use alien invasion is due to the feeling that we are not likely to be invaded and taken over. It would seem to me that by the time a race has achieved deep space capability it would have matured to a point where it would have no thought of dominating another intelligent species. Further than this, there should be no economic necessity of its doing so. By the time it was able to go into deep space, it must have arrived at an energy source which would not be based on planetary natural resources.”

Source : "Skirmish: The Great Short Fiction of Clifford D.Simak". Book by Clifford D. Simak, Introduction (p. ix), 1977.
“Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.”
“I don't find a lot of people actually saying things through music any longer. They are not trying to say anything with their music, they just want to make money with it. I think it's important to actually say something real, something meaningful, rather than just write some trash and try to sell it.”
“There is no doubt in my mind who is number one - I have always been number one.”
“She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just takes time.”

Source : Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.187, Simon and Schuster

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