"The devil never gave a gift for free."

--

Source : Tananarive Due (2008). “Blood Colony: A Novel”, p.398, Simon and Schuster

Tananarive Due

“Death is the reward for living”
“Your discovery, as best as I can determine, is that there is an alternative which no one has hit upon. It is that one finding oneself in one of life's critical situations need not after all respond in one of the traditional ways. No. One may simply default. Pass. Do as one pleases, shrug, turn on one's heel and leave. Exit. Why after all need one act humanly?”
“Writing as writing. Writing as rioting. Writing as righting. On the best days, all three.”

Source : Twitter post from Apr 11, 2014
“The biggest looters are the British Museum.”

Source : Song: Dear England
“What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise”
“Although the Irish language is connected with the many recollections that twine around the hearts of Irishmen, yet the superior utility of the English tongue, as the medium of all modern communication, is so great that I can witness without a sigh the gradual decline of the Irish language.”
“Money is a new form of slavery, and distinguishable from the old simply by the fact that it is impersonal - that there is no human relation between master and slave.”
“I am a career public servant. Until the aftermath of Benghazi, I loved every day of my job.”

Source : "CNN Newsroom" with Wolf Blitzer, www.cnn.com. May 8, 2013.

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