"Usually, when people get to the end of a chapter, they close the book and go to sleep. I deliberately write a book so when the reader gets to the end of the chapter, he or she must turn one more page."

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Source : "Sidney Sheldon's guide to success", www.cnn.com. October 19, 2000.

Sidney Sheldon

#Book Quotes #Sleep Quotes #Writing Quotes

“The essence of government is control, or the attempt to control.”
“Comics are a gateway into literature.”

Source : "Comic Books: Good For Kids?". Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. January 26, 2010.
“Suicide was a mortal luxury not afforded to angels.”

Source : Lauren Kate (2013). “The Fallen Series: 4-Book Collection”, p.800, Delacorte Press
“If each of us can learn to relate to each other more out of compassion, with a sense of connection to each other and a deep recognition of our common humanity, and more important, to teach this to our children, I believe that this can go a long way in reducing many of the conflicts and problems that we see today.”
“The Best way to help the world is to help someone!”
“It seems to me immensely unlikely that mind is a mere by-product of matter. For if my mental processes are determined wholly by the motions of atoms in my brain I have no reason to suppose that my beliefs are true. They may be sound chemically, but that does not make them sound logically. And hence I have no reason for supposing my brain to be composed of atoms.”

Source : John Locke, David Wootton (1993). “Locke: Political Writings”, p.270, Hackett Publishing
“Capital punishment is against the best judgment of modern criminology and, above all, against the highest expression of love in the nature of God.”
“It was not curiosity that killed the goose who laid the golden egg, but an insatiable greed that devoured common sense.”

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