"Sentiment and nostalgia are fatal for fiction. One must go into the territory of the imagination with sure feet, hot fainting with glorious misery."

-- Lynn Freed

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“We don't need someone who can think. We need someone with enough digits to hold a pen.”
“I am a grenade," I said again. "I just want to stay away from people and read books and think and be with you guys because there's nothing I can do about hurting you: You're too invested, so just please let me do that, okay? "I'm going to go to my room and read for awhile, okay? I'm fine. I really am fine: I just want to go read for a while.”
“Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one.”
“I think I'm fascinated by the power of religion in our culture. Like a lot of secular, liberal people, I ignored it for a long time. Lately, of course, just from a political perspective, it's impossible to ignore.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
“You should have to pass an IQ test before you breed. You have to take a driving test to operate vehicles and an SAT test to get into college. So why donâ€™t you have to take some sort of test before you give birth to children? When I am President, thatâ€™s the first rule I will institute.”
“During the Samuel Johnson days they had big men enjoying small talk; today we have small men enjoying big talk.”
“The abundance, the solidity, and the splendor of the results already achieved by science are well fitted to inspire us with a cheerful confidence in the soundness of its method.”

Source : "The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion". Book by James G. Frazer, 1890.
“The man smiled at him a sly smile. As if they knew a secret between them, these two. Something of age and youth and their claims and the justice of those claims. And of their claims upon them. The world past, the world to come. Their common transciencies. Above all a knowing deep in the bone that beauty and loss are one.”

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