"My greatest pleasure is to invent. My continual mad ambition is to make something true and beautiful that never existed in the world before."

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Source : "An Interview With Author Peter Carey". Interview with Ben Evans, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 6, 2010.

Peter Carey

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“On the justice of the cause of Prince Edouard, adding insurances of greatest sincerity to help it and support it and give him on all occasions of the marks of the same feelings as I have for the King his father.”
“Sensationalism seems to sell more than wonderful-positive news.”
“Im committed to universal health coverage and education.”
“Shame on those breasts of stone that cannot melt in soft adoption of another's sorrow.”

Source : Aaron Hill, Colley Cibber, John Vanbrugh, George Farquhar (1817). “Tragedy of Alzira with the Life of the Author and a Critique by Richard Cumberland”, p.14
“What do you call a planet where bad guys stroll through life with success draped around their shoulders like a Kingâ€™s cloak, while random horrors are visited upon the innocent heads of children? I call it Earth.”

Source : Jordan Sonnenblick (2010). “Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie”, p.111, Scholastic Inc.
“When I'm at an event, I like to be an eccentric dresser. I will just keep wearing what I like.”
“Facebook and pictures on the Internet have created such a different way of dating. It's not necessarily good because an obsessive quality can develop in people.”

Source : "Meet Under the Dome's 'Romantic to a Fault' Heartthrob, Alexander Koch" by Lorraine Cwelich, www.elle.com. September 16, 2013.
“You have the insanity that is geo-engineering which is a case in which you say the planet is heating up. Let's spray some aerosol and cool it down.”

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