"And the simple people are trash. A herd of sheep that are good for shearing, but sometimes it's more profitable to slaughter them."

-- Sergei Lukyanenko

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“the running boy is inside every man, no matter how old he gets.”
“When someone you love dies, and you're not expecting it, you don't lose her all at once; you lose her in pieces over a long timeâ€”the way the mail stops coming, and her scent fades from the pillows and even from the clothes in her closet and drawers. Gradually, you accumulate the parts of her that are gone. Just when the day comesâ€”when there's a particular missing part that overwhelms you with the feeling that she's gone, foreverâ€”there comes another day, and another specifically missing part.”

Source : John Irving (1989). “A prayer for Owen Meany: a novel”, William Morrow & Co
“I have this weird thing where all the artists that I find myself engaging with the most are the ones that I have a bone to pick with.”
“Change excites me. I am fifty years old. It's when the mind catches up with the body.”
“It has been a long road from Plato's Meno to the present, but it is perhaps encouraging that most of the progress along that road has been made since the turn of the twentieth century, and a large fraction of it since the midpoint of the century. Thought was still wholly intangible and ineffable until modern formal logic interpreted it as the manipulation of formal tokens. And it seemed still to inhabit mainly the heaven of Platonic ideals, or the equally obscure spaces of the human mind, until computers taught us how symbols could be processed by machines.”

Source : "Computer Science as Empirical Inquiry: Symbols and Search". Communications of the ACM 19 (3), (p. 125), March 1976.
“I'm neither giving up nor giving in.”

Source : "Charlton Heston Makes Statement About Alzheimer's". "CNN News" with Fredricka Whitfield, transcripts.cnn.com. August 9, 2002.
“The center of life is female - we all come from our mothers. I've always drawn women or female spirits. I feel deeply about this - who gives a damn about some guy on a cross? My mother's creativity was smothered after she married and raised a family, but she was supportive of me - even my father expected me to carry on in her footsteps. I prefer to have no kids but lots of animals.”
“My sister and I do to what we love to do and do what we want to do, so that sort of started us off having a sense of 'Do this because you love it' not 'Do this because you want to be famous.' IGN Logo”

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