"There are significant moments in everyone's day that can make literature. That's what you ought to write about."

-- Raymond Carver

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“Government has three primary functions. It should provide for military defense of the nation. It should enforce contracts between individuals. It should protect citizens from crimes against themselves or their property. When government-- in pursuit of good intentions tries to rearrange the economy, legislate morality, or help special interests, the cost come in inefficiency, lack of motivation, and loss of freedom. Government should be a referee, not an active player.”
“If, in the very intense electric field in the neighbourhood of the cathode, the molecules of the gas are dissociated and are split up, not into the ordinary chemical atoms, but into these primordial atoms, which we shall for brevity call corpuscles; and if these corpuscles are charged with electricity and projected from the cathode by the electric field, they would behave exactly like the cathode rays.”

Source : "Cathode rays". Philosophical Magazine, (44, 293), 1897.
“Learning to decipher words had only added to the pleasures of holding spines and turning pages, measuring the journey to the end with a thumb-riffle, poring over frontispieces. Books! Opening with a crackle of old glue, releasing perfume; closing with a solid thump.”
“When you're dealing with something sensitive, which is about culture, and its effect on a generation, you don't want any stones not to be turned over.”

Source : Source: deadline.com
“Every girl is capable of murder if you hurt her.”

Source : Song: This Little Girl, Album: This Little Girl, 2012
“Most people don't know there are angels whose only job is to make sure you don't get too comfortable & fall asleep & miss your life.”
“All agreed that the sensation of coasting on the air was delightful.”
“It takes all the fun out of a bracelet if you have to buy it yourself.”

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