"I sat on the bench by the willows and at my honey bun and read Triton. There are some awful things in the world, itâ€™s true, but there are also some great books. When I grow up I would like to write something that someone could read sitting on a bench on a day that isnâ€™t all that warm and they could sit reading it and totally forget where they were or what time it was so that they were more inside the book than inside their own head. Iâ€™d like to write like Delany or Heinlein or Le Guin."

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Source : Jo Walton (2011). “Among Others”, p.52, Macmillan

Jo Walton

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“All that attention to the perfect lighting, the perfect this, the perfect that, I find terribly annoying.”
“I'm not surprised, but I am disappointed that Katharine Carr Esters claims that she was 'tricked' into divulging her true feelings about Oprah and that she now denies that she revealed to me the identity of Oprah's biological father.”

Source : "Oprah’s Aunt Katharine’s Denials May Be Pressure From Oprah" by Kitty Kelley, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 20, 2010.
“Nothing seems to me more doubtful than Aristotle's remark that it is probable the arts and philosophy have several times been discovered and several times lost.”

Source : Julien Benda (2011). “The Treason of the Intellectuals”, p.195, Transaction Publishers
“Annihilating all that's made, To a green thought in a green shade.”

Source : "The Garden" l. 47 (1681)
“Labor is rest from the sorrows that greet us; from all the petty vexations that meet us; from the sin-promptings that assail us; from the world-sirens that lure us to ill”
“Bobby Brown reminds me of a fellow who's been hitting for 12 years and fielding one.”
“Life is essentially a question of values.”
“Work for your own soul's sake.”

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