"From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death. ... I fell morally and intellectually obligated simply to concede that the death penalty experiment has failed."

-- Harry A. Blackmun

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“Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.”
“Work until your idols become your rivals”
“You're dealing with a character who is, at some points, quite insane. And I hope that any wicked, dark sense of humor Eric exhibits comes out of the fact that he'd been pushed to the point where it seems quite sensible to say some of the ridiculous things he says.”
“There are scores of books offering 'solutions' to sprawl. Their authors would do well to read this book.”
“Confound my genteel upbringing! I could not think of any name foul enough to call him.”

Source : Nancy Springer (2008). “The Case of the Left-Handed Lady: An Enola Holmes Mystery”, p.92, Penguin
“You have to pay attention to the work on the page and make it as good as possible because it could be your last.”
“I really enjoy work to a purpose. Maybe that makes me kind of strange. In some ways - and this is going to sound awful - it could be that writing is the worst job that I've ever had. Because it's so much more important to me and there's so much more opportunity for failure and I have so many people depending on me. In some ways it's the most satisfying, the most gratifying, and the most rewarding job I've ever had. But I actually would say it's probably the worst job I've ever had too.”
“Find something you love to do and then do it for the rest of your life”

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