"Get too conceptual, too cute and remote, and your characters die on the page."

-- Thomas Pynchon

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“We are, in the end, a sum of our parts, and when the body fails, all the virtues we hold dear go with it.”

Source : Susannah Cahalan (2012). “Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness”, p.43, Simon and Schuster
“The human condition is not served by our technical ability to transmit a televised image around the world - if that image is totally inane.”
“Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.”
“I take the world very personally. I take history personally; I want to place myself in the larger context.”
“A decisive cleansing of the conscience is a prerequisite for unhindered access to God”

Source : Michael L. Brown (2014). “Hyper-Grace”, p.49, Charisma Media
“I did a lot of work with early 20th century attitudes, the kind of superficial notions and behavior that prompt people who don't know history very well to think that "people were different back then" - but beneath all that are characters who react in ways that we can all recognize, and will always be able to recognize.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“The State, completely in its genesis, essentially and almost completely during the first stages of its existence, is a social institution, forced by a victorious group of men on a defeated group, with the sole purpose of regulating the dominion of the victorious group over the vanquished, and securing itself against revolt from within and attacks from abroad. Teleologically, this dominion had no other purpose than the economic exploitation of the vanquished by the victors.”

Source : Franz Oppenheimer (1923). “The State: Its History and Development Viewed Sociologically”, p.15, Transaction Publishers
“We have to change economic policy: create confidence, foster investment, cut the public deficit, restructure taxation and reform the labor laws.”

Source : "Will Spain Be the Next Greece?". Interview with Lalli Weymouth, www.slate.com. October 28, 2011.

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