"I used to ask for an easy life, now I ask to be strong."

-- William Kent Krueger

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“The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious.”
“If I were dead, then nobody in England would have to fuss about the cost of my security and whether or not I merited such special treatment for so long.”
“I try to write each piece in the language of the piece, so that I'm not using the same language from piece to piece. I may be using ten or twenty languages. That multiplicity of language and the use of words is African in tradition. And black writers have definitely taken that up and taken it in. It's like speaking in tongues. It may sound like gibberish to somebody, but you know it's a tongue of some kind. Black people have this. We have the ability as a race to speak in tongues, to dream in tongues, to love in tongues.”
“Fear's useless. Either something bad happens or it doesn't: If it doesn't, you've wasted time being afraid, and if it does, you've wasted time that you could have spent sharpening your weapons.”

Source : Sarah Rees Brennan (2010). “The Demon's Lexicon”, p.137, Simon and Schuster
“Cars aren't merely modes of transit or material possessions to Texans; they are something of a state treasure. We share a special, almost religious attachment to the automobile, rooted, I suppose, in our mythological relationship to the horse, our economic underpinnings in the oil industry, and the inescapable fact that to get anywhere in this state, you have to cover a lot of ground.”
“It is a grave error for any leader to be oversensitive in the face of criticism”
“You have to understand where you are on the continuum. I feel I have to be the criminal mastermind on the mound if I want to win.”
“I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference.”

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