"There are people already sharing eBooks out there, .. and they do it simply because they love books. You don't buy a second copy of a book, cut the spine off, lay each page on a scanner, run that .tif through an OCR (Optical Character Reader), hand edit the resulting output for errors and then post it online if you don't love the book. it can up to 80 hours to turn a printed novel into an eBook. I figure if someone out there is willing to put in 80 hours of work promoting my book, then I'd prefer they do it in a way that gives a better return to me."

-- Cory Doctorow

#Running Quotes #Book Quotes #Character Quotes

“Now it is done. Now the story ends. And there is no way to tell it. The art of fiction is dead. Reality has strangled invention.”

Source : Red Smith (2013). “American Pastimes: The Very Best of Red Smith (The Library of America)”, p.26, Library of America
“Friends told me that the latest trend, at least in Europe, is public sex. They showed me some clips, and they're terrifying. A couple enters a streetcar, half-full, simply takes a seat, undresses, and starts to do it. You can see from surprised faces that it's not staged. It's pure working-class suburb. But what's fascinating is that the people all look, and then they politely ignore it. The message is that even if you're together in public with people, it still counts as private space.”
“Finnish forests: Let us remind the satellite pictures of the 1970's winter in which the old forest appeared black and young forest and cut downs white. Already then the Finnish borders were like drawn on the map: White Finland between black Karelian and black Sweden. Finnish Forest Research Institute hicced up some time and then decided that the pictures are fake. . .”

Source : "Can Life Prevail?". Book by Pentti Linkola, 2004.
“Women, on average, earn less than men in almost every occupation, including traditional female orientated jobs like nursing and teaching.”

Source : "The Fight for Women’s Equality Continues" by Rep. Sandy Levin, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 18, 2013.
“As a director/writer/producer, all you ever want is to work with actors who make you look better, who make the work you do seem as good as it can be and even better than it is.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“What keeps things going, what sustains families, what makes work meaningful, what contributes to our wellbeing and what really connects us to Nature is cooperation”
“Until the wolf shall lay with lamb, we'd better be the wolves.”
“Since the universe is stupid, it's no wonder that social Darwinism tends to support, promote and finance the evolution of fools.”

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