"Readers need to see themselves between the lines of the story."

-- Karen Kingsbury

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“I do not feel that the West has really become less condescending toward foreign cultures than the Greeks and Romans were: it has only become more tolerant. Mind you, not toward Islamâ€”only toward certain other Eastern cultures, which offer some sort of spiritual attraction to the spirit-hungry West and are, at the same time, too distant from the Western world-view to constitute any real challenge to its values.”

Source : Muhammad Asad (1954). “The Road To Mecca”, p.10, The Book Foundation
“I am not here to entertain straight people.”
“I've never supported this concept of going after Napster. I think the rock bands who fought this were wrong.”
“Pain! Deep, tearing, throbbing, needle-sharp, hammer-blunt pain â€“ ripping through his body and through his mind, twisting deep in his guts and slicing at his skin with razors and broken glass. Oskan wanted to scream, but his vocal cords had burned away. He was desperate for water and he could hear it dripping all around him, but his charred tongue found nothing in his mouth but blisters and scorched flesh. For hours he lay on the ropes of the low bed, unable to move, the pressure of the hemp on his destroyed skin sending new agonies deep into his body.”

Source : Stuart Hill (2011). “The Icemark Chronicles #1: Cry of the Icemark”, p.352, Scholastic Inc.
“We laugh at the efforts of the musk deer to find the source of the scent which comes from itself and despair at our efforts to find the peace which is our essence.”
“Going too far is half the pleasure of not getting anywhere.”

Source : "Questions for Griffy". Interview with Gary Panter, www.tcj.com. March 21, 2012.
“Pride may go before a fall, but jealousy goes before destruction.”
“Perhaps our eyes need to be washed by our tears once in a while, so that we can see Life with a clearer view again.”

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