"Good writing does not succeed or fail on the strength of its ability to persuade. It succeeds or fails on the strength of its ability to engage you, to make you think, to give you a glimpse into someone else's head."

-- Malcolm Gladwell

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“We compromise ourselves the day we are born. If we are looking for the original sin, there it is- our incapacity to live honestly with ourselves because we are human, because we are shackled by custom, by obligations and we accept compromise only in the light of our conscience, answerable as we are only to ourselves.”
“Magnanimity is above circumstance; and any virtue which depends on that is more of constitution than of principle.”
“If you're Irish, it doesn't matter where you go-you'll find family.”
“I am good in bed - I don't snore. I don't take the duvet. I just lay there and go straight off to sleep. That's all you want out of a bloke.”
“Smaller stuff tends to get shared more frequently.”
“oh my god, she said are you going to be reasonable about this?”
“Biology transcends society.”

Source : Jessie Redmon Fauset (2013). “The Chinaberry Tree: A Novel of American Life”, p.121, Courier Corporation
“A boy got a splinter in his eye, and his heart turned cold. Only two people noticed. One was a witch, and she took him for her own. The other was his best friend. And she went after him in ill-considered shoes, brave and completely unprepared.”

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