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“As long as science fails to discover the sources of life, as long as, on sea or in the sky, there is an abyss that is resistant to mathematical reckoning, as long as mankind in its steady progress is ignorant of where it's heading, as long as a mystery exists for man, there will be poetry!”
Source : Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, Stanley Appelbaum (2006). “Rhymes and Legends (Selection)/Rimas Y Leyendas (selección): A Dual-Language Book”, p.9, Courier Corporation
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“You know, so many people say TV makes you stupid. But it had the complete opposite effect on me. It kept me from having a really bad Southern accent.”
Source : "A Conversation With Dj Qualls". Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. April 4, 2003.
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“Atheism is a fairy story for people afraid of the Light”
Source : "An Evening With John Lennox". "The Spirit of Things" with Rachael Kohn, www.abc.net.au. August 7, 2011.
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“Winter is coming, we know what's coming with it. We can learn to live with the wildlings, or we can add them to the army of the dead.”
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“A very wise author once said that a writer writes for himself, and then publishes for money. I write for myself and publish just for the reader”
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“I didn't equate a POW camp with a concentration camp.”
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“My best time to write is right after coffee and breakfast - four eggs because, full disclosure: I'm really a komodo dragon - and that's because then I'm energized but not so awake that the critical voice clicks on, the voice that sometimes says, "Don't write that," or "Man, that sentence is terrible - you should give up and go pet the cats."”
Source : Source: www.buzzfeed.com
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“Country music runs through my veins. I love it very much.”