"Whenever I finish a book, I start with a blank slate and never have ideas lined up."

-- Erik Larson

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“But you must stop playing among his ghosts -- it's stupid and dangerous and completely pointless. He's trying to lay them to rest here, not stir them up, and you seem eager to drag out all the sad old bones of his history and make them dance again. It's not nice, and it's not fair.”
“Yes, Iâ€™m a mouse. Squeak, squeak. Now shoo-shoo back to your little bug friends,â€ said Rirped, picking up a hunk of dried beef. He tore a off a piece with his teeth and noticed Boots hadnâ€™t moved. He pulled back his lips to reveal a row of jagged teeth and gave her a sharp hiss.”
“Besides being complicated, reality, in my experience, is usually odd. It is not neat, not obvious, not what you expect.”
“What is the environmental platform of the Republican party? I don't know either.”

Source : "Lindsey Graham on Iran's Nuclear Program". Interview with Amy Davidson, www.cfr.org. March 23, 2015.
“When I look in the fridge, I see groceries, but I don't see food. My stomach growls; but there is no appetite. Appetite and hunger are different. Appetite is the mental prompting that kicks the auto-response into drive so you actually reach out, take the food, put it in your mouth, chew, and swallow. I learned this in my first psychology course. Eating isn't just a physical need; it starts in the mind, generating hunger, which then should trigger the body to ingest food. I have no sparks between these plugs.”
“In the streets through which we passed, I must own the houses in general struck me as if they were dark and gloomy, and yet at the same time they also struck me as prodigiously great and majestic.”

Source : Karl Philipp Moritz (2010). “Travels in England in 1782”, p.8, BoD – Books on Demand
“What America needs now is a drink,”
“I've studied astrology for many, many years, and I feel like it's an incredibly challenging art.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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