"You can't really know what you are made of until you are tested."

-- O.R. Melling

“A lot of people still like Solaris, but I'm in active competition with them, and so I hope they die.”
“I had the conviction that lovemaking fools you. The overpowering emotions it induces make you think you're sharing the same feelings as the other person and that they're imagining the same as you.”
“The more you think, the more you ruin things. Art has to come viscerally; otherwise, forget it.”
“Out here, it's just you and the ball.”

Source : "Go Set a Watchman: first chapter released - as it happened" by Helen Davidson, Matthew Weaver, Lanre Bakare, Michelle Dean, www.theguardian.com. July 10, 2015.
“We're a diverse society, and I think the TV is doing a great job in showing that we're all human beings, that we can all get along, that we can all be together, and I think that's a marvelous thing.”
“If by the people you understand the multitude, the hoi polloi, 'tis no matter what they think; they are sometimes in the right, sometimes in the wrong; their judgment is a mere lottery.”
“I don't know," I said. "Maybe you're right, and all that stuff I think I missed is overrated. Why should I even bother? What's the point really?" He thought for a moment. "Who says there has to be a point?" he asked. "Or a reason. Maybe it's just something you have to do." He moved down to start bagging while I just stood there, letting this sink in. Just something you have to do. No excuse or rationale necessary. I kind of like that.”
“If, as Steven King once wrote, 'Valleys are the dimples on the face of the earth,' then Silicon Valley is undoubtedly the deepest, most sparkling dimple of them all.”

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