"Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one."

-- Bertrand Russell

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“If you think you can experience the power of the Internet on a 1-inch screen, you've got to be out of your mind.”
“Let a fool be made serviceable according to his folly.”
“The long summer was over. For ages a tropical climate had prevailed over a great part of the earth, and animals whose home is now beneath the Equator roamed over the world from the far South to the very borders of the Arctics ... But their reign was over. A sudden intense winter, that was also to last for ages, fell upon our globe.”
“I did more research into the police procedure. I worked out with SWAT guys and ex- and active military guys, and consulted with them and read books. As far as the character itself, I don't know how you can research being a focused guy, aside from just being a focused person and knowing what that's like. Outside of the character background and all that, there wasn't a whole lot of other stuff to really delve into. You just do what you do.”
“Money cannot buy health, but I'd settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.”
“Nobody should trust their virtue with necessity, the force of which is never known till it is felt, and it is therefore one of the first duties to avoid the temptation of it.”
“Basically, what happened was, I had moved out to Los Angeles, I was pretty damn lazy and I put on some pounds.”
“Memory is a cruel mistress with whom we all must learn to dance.”

Source : Kate Morton (2009). “The Forgotten Garden: A Novel”, p.446, Simon and Schuster

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