"A book is a private thing, citizen; it belongs to the one who writes it and to the one who reads it. Like the mind itself, a book is a private space. Within that space, anything is possible. The greatest evil and the greatest good."

-- Rikki Ducornet

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“Do you spend time with your family? Good. Because a man that doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man.”
“A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.”

Source : "Leadership Divided: What Emerging Leaders Need and What You Might Be Missing". Book by Ron A. Carucci, September 30, 2006.
“If you can believe it, Hollywood wanted to change my birthdate. I was born after Valentine's Day, so they wanted to change it to February 14. A Latin lover should be born on Valentine's Day. I said no.”
“Electronic calculators can solve problems which the man who made them cannot solve; but no government-subsidized commission of engineers and physicists could create a worm.”
“Science fiction is trying to find alternative ways of looking at realities.”

Source : "Sci-Fi Writer Iain Banks Talks Surface Detail's Hell, Creationist Heresy". Wired Interview, www.wired.com. October 15, 2010.
“Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything.”

Source : Hotel du Lac (1984) ch. 7
“Don't just dream it. Be it!”
“For I had expected always Some brightness to hold in trust, Some final innocence To save from dust”

Source : 1933 'What I Expected, Was'.

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