"When I start getting close to the end of a novel, something registers in the back of my mind for the next novel, so that I usually don't write, or take notes. And I certainly don't begin. I just allow things to percolate for a while."

-- Richard Russo

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“We need a more authoritative world...What's the alternative to democracy? There isn't one. But even the best democracies agree that when a major war approaches, democracy must be put on hold for the time being. I have a feeling that climate change may be an issue as severe as war. It may be necessary to put democracy on hold for a while.”
“To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.”
“In a competitive society, the thing people fear the most is love.”
“In war, numbers alone confer no advantage. Do not advance relying on sheer military power.”
“Modern science and technology can relieve men of the necessity for specialized, imbecile labor. They may, in principle, provide the basis for a rational social order based on free association and democratic control, if we have the will to create it.”
“Fear is nature's warning signal to get busy.”
“A word devoid of thought is a dead thing, and a thought unembodied in words remains a shadow.”
“People buy ideas, they don't buy photographs.”

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