"I know that certain minds would regard as audacious the idea of relating the laws which preside over the play of our organs to those laws which govern inanimate bodies; but, although novel, this truth is none the less incontestable. To hold that the phenomena of life are entirely distinct from the general phenomena of nature is to commit a grave error, it is to oppose the continued progress of science."

-- Francois Magendie

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“Gogol remembers having to do the same thing when he was younger, when his grandparents died...He remembers, back then, being bored by it, annoyed at having to observe a ritual no one else he knew followed, in honor of people he had seen only a few times in his life...Now, sitting together at the kitchen table at six-thirty every evening, his father's chair empty, this meatless meal is the only thing that seems to make sense.”
“I`ve always thought Prince Charming in Cinderella was the most boring role; I`d rather be the Wicked Witch.”
“Whatever is not nailed down is mine." This is the motto of the exploiter. "Whatever can be pried loose is not nailed down." This is the second maxim in a country where people are rich, caring little in their present prosperity what shall become of the future.”
“Where the Internet is about availability of information, blogging is about making information creation available to anyone.”
“Your absence has not taught me how to be alone, it merely has shown that when together we cast a single shadow on the wall”
“Writing is a struggle no matter what the genre.”

Source : "PW Talks with Susan Wiggs". Interview with Suzanne Fox, www.publishersweekly.com. January 28, 2002.
“I regularly find myself waking up to art I passed by or simply ignored.”
“Fear is sweat, but terror is addictive.”

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