"Number is different from quantity."

-- Gregory Bateson

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“The Earth forgives the previous year every year.”
“In the future there are going to be no pretty girls, for the simple reason there will be no plain girls against which to contrast them. Of late I have done some systematic reading of ladies papers. The plain girl submits to a course of "treatment." In eighteen months she bursts upon Society an acknowledged beauty.”
“Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.”
“I love conventional apocalypse movies. In movies, I like to be with the president, or the scientist trying to solve the problem, but that's not the kind of fiction that I like to read.”

Source : "The Age of Miracles". Interview with Mark Medley, nationalpost.com. July 13, 2012.
“No distinction is 'tween man and man, But as his virtues add to him a glory Or vices cloud him.”
“I glanced at Carson, who had promised things would be alright. His gaze was on the floor, and a muscle in his jaw flexed rhythmically but unhelpfully. If he was trying to send me a message, I was out of luck, because I'd never learned Morse Code for Assholes.”

Source : Rosemary Clement-Moore (2013). “Spirit and Dust”, p.41, Delacorte Books for Young Readers
“After all, damn it, what does being in love mean if you can't trust a person.”
“If we do not defend ourselves none will defend us; if we yield we will be more and more pressed as we recede; and if we submit we will be trampled under foot. I hold concession or compromise to be fatal. If we concede an inch, concession would follow compromise, until our ranks would be so broken that effectual resistance would be impossible.”

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