"Language does not always have to wear a tie and lace-up shoes. The object of fiction isn't grammatical correctness but to make the reader welcome and then tell a story... To make him/her forget, whenever possible, that he/she is reading a story at all."

-- Stephen King

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“The upheavals [of artificial intelligence] can escalate quickly and become scarier and even cataclysmic,â€ the New York Times tech columnist once wrote. â€œImagine how a medical robot, originally programmed to rid cancer, could conclude that the best way to obliterate cancer is to exterminate humans who are genetically prone to the disease.”
“Every time you dive, you hope you'll see something new - some new species. Sometimes the ocean gives you a gift, sometimes it doesn't.”
“There are so many aspects of human sexuality that we're afraid to talk about, because people still don't understand it. It's not just black and white, you know?”
“It's kind of like when a clock battery runs down. The hour and minute hands don't disappear, but they don't keep ticking either. They freeze on the last minute they measured.”
“I ain't going to lie: I was happy, man. Me and my sisters and my brother was mad cool. We all did the music thing. My dad had the keys to the church, so we would go over there and jam. So I just want my kids to have fun the right way. I want their type of trouble to be, like, "Aw, Dad, I locked the keys in the car." I don't want to hear about, "Oh, my friend just got shot."”
“People talk about me as if I am the sole inheritor of the Guinness family fortune and worth masses, but I have hundreds of cousins.”
“The problems of elites is an old one for which Americans have found no solid answer.”

Source : "Barbarian Sentiments - How The American Century Ends". Book by William Pfaff, ch. 2, The Challenge of Europe, p. 28, 1989.
“If you organize your life around your passion, you can turn your passion into your story and then turn your story into something bigger - something that matters.”

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