"Apart from letters, it is the vulgar custom of the moment to deride the thinkers of the Victorian and Edwardian eras; yet there has not been, in all history, another agewhen so much sheer mental energy was directed toward creating a fairer social order."

-- Ellen Glasgow

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“I don't want to write things that people don't want to read. I would have no pleasure in producing something that sold 600 copies but that was considered very wonderful. I would prefer to sell 20,000 copies because the readers loved it. When I write books I don't actually think about the market in that way. I just tell myself the story. I don't think I'm talking to a 10-year-old boy or a six-year-old girl. I just write on the level the story seems to call for.”
“The two [separate] UIs are both incredibly simple and don't even look like computer programs; they barely need menus. [When combined, they] suddenly look like software.”
“When I'm working behind a camera, I feel like I'm trying to achieve something like a jazz musician does.”
“The FBI, to its credit in a self-serving sort of way, rejects the routine use of the polygraph on its own people.”
“Mathematics is not yet capable of coping with the naÃ¯vetÃ© of the mathematician himself.”
“You don't come into this life wanting to be anything other than happy.”

Source : Interview with Chrissy Iley, www.theguardian.com. October 7, 2007.
“The great thing about marriage is that it creates trust, the most precious of things.”
“Normal is nothing more than a cycle on a washing machine.”

Source : "Whoopi Goldberg in full flight". Interview with Cole Morton, www.theguardian.com. April 17, 2009.

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