"Never open a book with weather. There are exceptions. If you happen to be Barry Lopez, who has more ways to describe ice and snow than an Eskimo, you can do all the weather reporting you want."

-- Elmore Leonard

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“I had asthma when I was a kid, asthma so bad that it would turn into pneumonia and I almost died several times. Nobody knew why back then, but now it's obvious.”
“I have failed many times, and that's why I am a success.”
“Live every day with an attitude of gratitude.”
“But in a broader sense, when I have more control, I want to expose people to new ideas.”
“If you say, 'I'm going to cut this song because I know the teenagers are going to love it,' well, then you're going to alienate everybody else. When I cut my record, I'm just going to cut the things that I like, and whoever likes it, likes it. That's too much work to try to figure out the demographic. That's too much like a business.”
“Spirituality can be severed from both vicious sectarianism and thoughtless banalities. Spirituality, I have come to see, is nothing less than the thoughtful love of life. [Spirituality for the Skeptic]”

Source : Robert C. Solomon (2006). “Spirituality for the Skeptic: The Thoughtful Love of Life”, p.12, Oxford University Press
“Now, I think of my writing as having two foundations: entertainment and meaning. The meaning portion is really me trying to answer my questions. The entertainment aspect of it is how I make a story that can make people turn the pages.”

Source : Source: www.edgemagazine.net
“No individual is alone responsible for a single stepping stone along the path of progress, and where the path is smooth progress is most rapid.”

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