"Things could be worse and things could be so much better."

-- Joshua Ferris

“Like the pain of a bad wound, the effect of a deep shock takes some while to be felt. When a child is told, for the first time in his life, that a person he has known is dead, although he does not disbelieve it, he may well fail to comprehend it and later ask--perhaps more than once--where the dead person is and when he is coming back.”

Source : Richard Adams (2014). “Watership Down”, p.187, Oneworld Publications
“Anybody can find infinite Mandelbrot figures in his navel.”

Source : Poul Anderson (2015). “Harvest of Stars”, p.366, Open Road Media
“We all have an interest, and a duty to future generations, to ensure that the benefits of mobility that we now take for granted, do not place an intolerable burden on our environment”
“Rhett: Don't start flirting with me. I'm not one of your plantation beaus. I want more than flirting from you. Scarlett: What do you want? Rhett: I'll tell you, Scarlett O'Hara, if you'll take that Southern-belle simper off your face. Someday, I want you to say to me the words I heard you say to Ashley Wilkes: I love you! Scarlett: That's something you'll never hear from me Captain Butler as long as you live.”

Source : "Fictional character: Rhett Butler". "Gone with the Wind", 1939.
“I'm on it pretty much all the time. I edit Wikipedia every day, I'm on Facebook, I'm on Twitter, I'm reading the news. During one of the US elections, I actually went through my computer and I blocked myself from looking at the major newspaper sites and Google News because I wasn't getting any work done.”
“When you fight something, you're tied to it forever. As long as you're fighting it, youâ€™re giving it power.”

Source : Anthony De Mello (2011). “Awareness: Conversations with the Masters”, p.15, Image
“The only justification for writing a novel is that it should be wonderful. Adequate is inadequate.”
“Everyone is mine - no matter what.”

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