"I learned to write fiction the way I learned to read fiction - by skipping the parts that bored me."

-- Jonathan Lethem

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“The devil isnâ€™t a true lion; he just walks around roaring like one trying to intimidate the Body of Christ. But the truth is, heâ€™s had his teeth pulled, and all he can do now is gum you.”
“Heed my words, daughter, if you ever mean to be happy: Never give yourself to a man.”

Source : Donna Woolfolk Cross (2009). “Pope Joan: A Novel”, p.64, Broadway Books
“It can be lost, and it will be, if the time ever comes when these documents are regarded not as the supreme expression of our profound belief, but merely as curiosities in glass cases.”
“I adored history, not the dry dates and boring battles, but the stories and the people who populated them.”

Source : Deanna Raybourn (2015). “Silent in the Grave”, p.159, MIRA
“...and horror of horrors, he realized that he was experiencing some sort of a crush. He needed to kill something.”
“If you want to know what's really going on in a society or ideology, follow the money. If money is flowing to advertising instead of musicians, journalists, and artists, then a society is more concerned with manipulation than truth or beauty.”

Source : Jaron Lanier (2010). “You Are Not a Gadget”, p.83, Vintage
“I think it's a very firm part of human nature that if you surround yourself with like-minded people, you'll end up thinking more extreme versions of what you thought before.”
“If you take your inspiration from nature, you don't invent anything, because what you want to do is to interpret something. But still, everything passes throught your imagination. What you produce at the end is very different from the reality you started with.”

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