"We're people of the Orient. We know everything. And what we don't know, we can sense."

-- Gary Shteyngart

“It's much more fun to be the exception, not the rule”

Source : T. A. Barron (2011). “Ultimate Magic”, p.144, Penguin
“Everything that I decide to do means something, otherwise I don't do them.”
“To be a hero means being the author of your own myth.”
“Civilization is the encouragement of differences.”
“The era of using people as production tools is coming to an end. Participation is infinitely more complex to practice than conventional corporate unilateralism, just as democracy is much more cumbersome than dictatorship. But there will be few companies that can afford to ignore either of them.”
“Mines are equal opportunity weapons.”
“Maybe my expectations for honesty are too high.”

Source : Kelley Armstrong (2014). “Darkness Rising Trilogy, 3-book bundle: The Gathering, The Calling, The Rising”, p.227, Penguin
“Rest is valuable only so far as it is a contrast. Pursued as an end, it becomes a most pitiable condition.”

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