"I knew that if I wrote a new book every six months or every year, if I continued to read great books, eventually I would write something worthy of publication. I understood I might be in my forties or my fifties or even my sixties, but I felt confident that it would happen."

-- Augusten Burroughs

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“In all honesty, we all want our fantasy selves to be the best people. We all think in a time of crisis, we will react heroically and with humanity.”

Source : "The First Time David Morrissey Killed a Zombie". Interview with Gillian Mohney, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 11, 2012.
“Are you making no progress in prayer? Then you need only offer God the prayers which the Savior has poured out for us in the sacrament of the altar. Offer God His fervent love in reparation for your sluggishness.”
“Put a gun to my head and paint the wall with my brains.”
“It is a slightly arresting notion that if you were to pick yourself apart with tweezers, one atom at a time, you would produce a mound of fine atomic dust, none of which had ever been alive but all of which had once been you.”
“There are no morals about technology at all. Technology expands our ways of thinking about things, expands our ways of doing things. If we're bad people we use technology for bad purposes and if we're good people we use it for good purposes.”
“Younger Arabs are much less satisfied with education in the region than their elders, and are more comfortable networking and communicating via digital means.”
“Any concerns that Romney will adopt McCain's milquetoast campaign model are quickly diminishing.”
“The only reason that they say, 'Women and children first' is to test the strength of the lifeboats.”

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