"What I eventually realized is that the real business of books is not done by awards committees or people who turn trees into paper or editors or agents or even writers. We're all just facilitators. The real business is done by readers."

-- John Green

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“Boredom is the keynote of poverty ... it's dark brown sameness.”
“Imagination and reality have little in common”
“It's probable that in the artistic hierarchy birds are the greatest musicians existing on our planet.”

Source : Claude Samuel, Olivier Messiaen (1976). “Conversations with Olivier Messiaen”, Stainer & Bell, Limited
“The revival of the Right is as extraordinary as it would be if the public had demanded dozens of new nuclear plants in the days after the Three Mile Island disaster; if we had reacted to Watergate by making Richard Nixon a national hero.”
“You don't want to cover a subject; you want to uncover it.”

Source : Eleanor Ruth Duckworth (2006). “"The Having of Wonderful Ideas" and Other Essays on Teaching and Learning”
“If you feel you have a film that's valid, you stick your ***** on the line.”
“The first few feet of sea-level rise alone will displace more than 100 million people worldwide and turn all our major Gulf and Atlantic coast cities into preKatrina New Orleans - below sea level and facing super-hurricanes. - Joseph Romm210. The generations living today get to retrofit, reboot, and reenergize a nation. We get to rescue and reinvent the U.S. economy.”
“Art is not special sauce applied to ordinary cooking; it is the cooking itself if it is good.”

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