"Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys."

-- P. J. O'Rourke

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“You know, there was a time, just before I started to study physical science, when astronomers thought that systems such as we have here in the solar system required a rare triple collision of stars”
“The thing now is to seem concerned in a vaguely social-democratic way.”
“Maybe that is the power of poetry. It somehow transcends news cycles, and becomes a part of our collective imagination. That is the beauty of the art form I like to play with.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“The East was no longer a threat to the western world, and when there's nothing to fear we turn our backs, we look elsewhere. Eastern literature is still the poor relative that everyone wants to forget, the Cinderella who hasn't (yet) found her prince.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“The true artist can only labor con amore.”
“Out here, it's better safe than sorry, because generally speaking, too much of the time sorry means you're dead.”
“After all, reading is arguably a far more creative and imaginative process than writing; when the reader creates emotion in their head, or the colors of the sky during the setting sun, or the smell of a warm summer's breeze on their face, they should reserve as much praise for themselves as they do for the writer - perhaps more.”

Source : Jasper Fforde (2004). “The Well of Lost Plots: A Thursday Next Novel”, p.51, Penguin
“I learned that in each of us there burns a flame of independence that must never be allowed to go out. That as long as it exists within us we cannot be destroyed.”

Source : Bryce Courtenay (1989). “The Power of One”, Random House LLC

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