"As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans."

-- Ernest Hemingway

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“It is a very easy thing to devise good laws; the difficulty is to make them effective. The great mistake is that of looking upon men as virtuous, or thinking that they can be made so by laws; and consequently the greatest art of a politician is to render vices serviceable to the cause of virtue.”
“Theres no environment I can think of that would have remained constant enough to preserve dinosaur DNA.”
“Courage, cheerfulness, and a desire to work depends mostly on good nutrition.”
“When a country is strong... it accepts any dose of pessimism from its writers.”
“The book is here to stay. What we're doing is symbolic of the peaceful coexistence of the book and the computer.”
“At a meta level, design connects the dots between mere survival and humanism.”
“So much beauty in the world, so few eyes to see it.”

Source : "How to Stop Time" by Anna Della Subin, www.nytimes.com. September 26, 2014.
“So why did you want to kiss me?" "We're friends aren't we?" Callum shrugged. I relaxed into a smile. "Of course we are." "And if you can't kiss your friends who can you kiss?" Callum smiled.”

Source : Malorie Blackman (2007). “Black & White”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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