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Laurie R. King

"Now, I'm as appreciative as the next obsessive-compulsive recovering-academic of the vast riches of material becoming available online, thanks to all those Google scanners crouched in the basements of libraries around the world, madly feeding books through their machines. I download obscure tomes onto my iPad and give thanks to the dual gods Gates and Jobs, singing hymns to all the lesser pantheon of geniuses. But there's nothing like a book."

-- Laurie R. King

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“I don't - I don't like that style, myself. I never did like Elvis's singing, but there was millions that did.”

Source : Source: www.npr.org
“Help, I have done it again I have been here many times before Hurt myself again today And the worst part is There's no-one else to blame.”
“Another merit of home is that it preserves the diversity between individuals. If we were all alike, it might be convenient for the bureaucrat and the statistician, but it would be very dull, and would lead to a very unprogressive society.”
“The point of art is not simply to express ourselves, but to create an external, concrete form in which the soul of our lives can be evoked and contained.”
“Like all men who are Napoleonic in their ambitionshe has instincts about the nature of growth, a lover's sense of the momentof crisis, and he knewhow costly is defeat when it is not soothed by greater consciousness, and how wasteful is the profit of victory when there is not the courage to employ it.”
“The pleasure of sport was so often the chance to indulge the cessation of time itself--the pitcher dawdling on the mound, the skier poised at the top of a mountain trail, the basketball player with the rough skin of the ball against his palm preparing for a foul shot, the tennis player at set point over his opponent--all of them savoring a moment before committing themselves to action.”

Source : George Plimpton (1994). “The Best of Plimpton”, p.48, Atlantic Monthly Press
“I'm the oldest of three girls. My sisters say I can be bossy.”
“I would always wear basketball jerseys and have my hair in a ponytail.”

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