"As is the inventor of murder, and the father of art, Cain must have been a man of first-rate genius."

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Source : Thomas De Quincey, James Thomas Fields (1851). “De Quincey's Writings: Miscellaneous essays. 1851”, p.24

Thomas de Quincey

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“And too much informayshun can drive a man mad. Too much informayshun becomes just Noise. And it never, never stops.”

Source : Patrick Ness (2008). “The Knife of Never Letting Go”, Candlewick Press (MA)
“War is a curtain of dense black fabric across all the hopes and kindliness of mankind. Yet always it has let through some gleams of light, and not--I am not dreaming--it grows threadbare, and here and there and at a thousand points the light is breaking through.”
“He who says either that the time for philosophy has not yet come or that it has passed is like someone who says that the time for happiness has not yet come or that it has passed.”
“Music is the balm that heals the forlorn ache of a distant star.”
“I never, ever, ever let emotion get in the way of an investment.”
“The thing about our cast - and I'm not saying this just to be diplomatic - is that everyone is really fun, and really hardworking, in equal measure. Julia [Louis-Dreyfus] and Tony [Hale, who plays President Meyer's "bag man," Gary Walsh] are always doing outrageous "bits" in character right before we start scenes, which are hilarious.”
“If you write for children with respect and treat them with dignity - you'll capture the adults as well. Children deserve nothing but our very best. Nothing but excellence will do for the young, because the responsibility is greater. We write up for children, never down.”
“The genius which runs to madness is no longer genius.”

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