"In the first night of the Arvon Foundation course, Elspeth Barker said something about the newspaper along the lines of - and I'm paraphrasing - "I do these pieces for them and it's amazing, because I don't type it out, I just fax it as it is, and the literary editor has a machine that can transform my handwriting into typed text." At which point I put my hand up and said, "Actually, I'm that machine.""

-- Maggie O'Farrell

“Blood sweat and tears homie I'm made of it”
“One of the main jobs of conciousness is to keep our life tied together into a coherent story, a self-concept. It does this by generating explanations of behaviors on the basis of our self image, images, memories of the past, expectations of the future, the present social situation, and the physical environment in which behavior is produced.”
“The children of America are not rebelling for no reason. They are not hippies for no reason at all. We donâ€™t have what we have on Sunset Blvd. for no reason. They are rebelling against something. There are so many things burning the people of this country, particularly mothers. They feel they are going to raise sonsâ€”and I know what it's like, and you have children of your own, Mrs. Johnsonâ€”we raise children and send them to war.”
“You gotta keep that in check - you got to.”
“Instead of this confusion, we need the unifying force of an official language, English, which is the language of success in America.”
“Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.”

Source : Testimony at House of Representatives hearings on cigarette advertising, 25 June 1981
“Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.”
“I have used Lenovo since I wrote my first novel. My old laptop broke, so I bought a new one, but still a Lenovo. It is one of my most essential devices.”

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