"Nothing dries sooner than a tear."

-- Marcus Tullius Cicero

“The notion of saving the planet has nothing to do with intellectual honesty or science. The fact is that the planet was here long before us and will be here long after us. The planet is running fine. What people are talking about is saving themselves and saving their middle-class lifestyles and saving their cash flow.”
“One of the paradoxes of writing is that when you write non-fiction everyone tries to prove that it's wrong, and when you publish fiction, everyone tries to see the truth in it.”

Source : Scarlett Thomas (2010). “Our Tragic Universe”, p.351, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“After spending many years in Wall Street and after making and losing millions of dollars I want to tell you this: It never was my thinking that made the big money for me. It always was my sitting. Got that? My sitting tight!”
“I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself.”
“In the old days all you needed was a handshake. Nowadays you need forty lawyers.”
“I had a lot of resistance, and not just to fame. I was always conscious of not changing.”
“We have created characters and animated them in the dimension of depth, revealing through them to our perturbed world that the things we have in common far outnumber and outweigh those that divide us.”
“I find people to be people everywhere. Everyone wants the same thing - be successful.”

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