"Writers are first and foremost observers. We lose ourselves in the watching and then the telling of the world we find. Often we feel on the fringes, in the margins of life. And that's where we belong. What you are a part of, you cannot observe."

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Source : Lisa Unger (2010). “Four Thrillers by Lisa Unger: Beautiful Lies, Sliver of Truth, Black Out, Die for You”, p.143, Crown

Lisa Unger

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“The spiritual is not the emotional; we may receive spiritual things emotionally, but to receive them rationally we must receive them with the mind and the will; we must act on them, we must experiment on them, we must let them permeate our consciousness.”

Source : Margaret Benson (1908). “The Venture of Rational Faith”
“Fascism is not the result of dictatorship.”
“It's a weird thing to say, but it would appear to me axiomatic that if you understood fully what I was doing and appreciated it, you would like it.”
“Is there no pity sitting in the clouds, That sees into the bottom of my grief?”
“I used to be more glamorous.”
“We are all born creative. We just got it educated out of us.”
“When you choose to become part of a team, you cease to exist as an individual.”
“Teach us all to do right, Lord, please, and to get along together with that atom bomb on this earth because I do not want it to fall on me-nor Thee-nor anybody living. Amen!”

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