"People learned to live with the most unimaginable things."

-- Khaled Hosseini

“I am not lucky. I am the type who would go to Lourdes and drown in the waters.”
“After all, it was only a story,' I said, determined to prove her wrong. 'All manner of terrible things may happen in a story. They may be startling at the time, but it passes. One gets caught up in the narrative, but the dangers aren't real, are they? Things happen in any way the storyteller chooses. It is all just made up.”

Source : Chris Priestley (2010). “Tales of Terror from the Tunnel's Mouth”, p.35, Bloomsbury Publishing
“The human race may well become extinct before the end of the century. Speaking as a mathematician, I should say the odds are about three to one against survival.”
“I'm sort of killing two birds with one stone here, getting to write for 'True Blood' and being able to put myself in a comic at the same time.”

Source : "EXCLUSIVE: Michael McMillian On 'True Blood' Comics, TV Crossovers, And Steve Newlin's Return". Interview with Rick Marshall, www.mtv.com. December 27, 2010.
“The deductive method is the mode of using knowledge, and the inductive method the mode of acquiring it.”

Source : Henry Mayhew (1851). “London Labour and the London Poor: A Cyclopaedia of the Condition and Earnings of Those that Will Work, Those that Cannot Work, and Those that Will Not Work”, p.158
“Live one day at a time. Keep your attention in present time. Have no expectations. Make no judgements. And give up the need to know why things happen as they do. Give it up!”
“Kindness is willing to look in the face of the hurting.”
“I don't think of being a woman in an industry of men. I didn't walk into the kitchen and go, 'Ooh, I'm a girl!' I didn't get into my chosen profession. I wanted to be good at something.”

Source : "Burger Queen". Interview with Lauren Collins, www.newyorker.com. November 22, 2010.

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