"If you decide to design your own language, there are thousands of sort of amateur language designer pitfalls."

-- Guido van Rossum

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“Kids think books are cool, especially when they see that people they think books are cool are reading.”
“I learnt that it is faith that decides whether something will happen or not,”
“Comics speak, without qualm or sophistication, to the innermost ears of the wishful self. The response is like that of a thirsty traveler who suddenly finds water in the desert - he drinks to satiation.”

Source : "The American Scholar Winter", 1943/4 issue, (pp. 35-44), 1943.
“OneÂ way or the other, if you want to find reasons why you shouldnâ€™t keep on, youâ€™llÂ find â€˜em. The obstacles are all there; there are a million of â€˜em.”
“Kate is going to come back, she is going to be super-strong again. Everybody is going to want her again because she is that kind of person. She is very professional and beautiful and she is going to be around forever.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, german.imdb.com.
“Religion has become the blind spot of American journalism.”
“I will tell you what man is. He is a freak, an ejected foetus robbed of his natural development, thrown out into the world with a naked covering of parchment, with too little room for his teeth and a soft bulging skull like a bubble. But nature stirs a pudding there...”

Source : "The World and the Book: A Study of Modern Fiction". Book by Gabriel Josipovici, 1971.
“The very best thing you can give someone is what they want.”

Source : Marshall Sylver (1997). “Passion Profit Power”, p.114, Simon and Schuster

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