"It's how creativity works. Especially in humans. For every good idea, ten thousand idiotic ones must first be posed, sifted, tried out, and discarded. A mind that's afraid to toy with the ridiculous will never come up with the brilliantly original."

-- David Brin

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“You need have no dull hours if you are a sincere lover of books.”
“The economy is in tatters; your job is in trouble - if you still have a job. And you know what? I've been saying it for years.”
“I think everyone's so scared of other people judging them.”

Source : "Courtney Barnett on songwriting, self-confidence, and her record label". Interview with Rose Riddell, www.coupdemainmagazine.com. February 29, 2016.
“I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.”
“You get to Alcatraz by being the worst of the worst. Unless you're me. I came here because my mother said I had to.”

Source : Gennifer Choldenko (2013). “Al Capone Does My Shirts”, p.3, Bloomsbury Publishing
“I feel some responsibility to shine light on things that I love.”

Source : Source: www.chicagotribune.com
“Matter and force are the two names of the one artist who fashions the living as well as the lifeless.”
“Memories are dangerous things. You turn them over and over, until you know every touch and corner, but still you'll find an edge to cut you.”

Source : Mark Lawrence (2011). “Prince of Thorns”, p.154, Penguin

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