"The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book."

-- Northrop Frye

#Book Quotes #Technology Quotes #Men Quotes

“Let my life as Poet begin. I want the life of the Poet. I have labored for over twelve years, one thousand pages of prose. Now, I want the easiness of poetry. The brevity of the poem.”
“Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.”
“We should be telling girls what they already know but rarely see affirmed: that the lives they lead inside their own self-contained bodies; the skills they attain through their own concentration and rigor, and the unique phase in their lives during which they may explore boys and eroticism at their own pace - these are magical. And they constitute the entrance point to a life cycle of a sexuality that should be held sacred.”
“Science no longer is in the position of observer of nature, but rather recognizes itself as part of the interplay between man and nature. The scientific method ... changes and transforms its object: the procedure can no longer keep its distance from the object.”
“Kaylin is not known for her punctuality. She is known, in fact, for her lack--even by those outside of the Hawklord's command.”

Source : Michelle Sagara (2016). “Cast in Shadow”, p.33, MIRA
“The progress of any writer is marked by those moments when he manages to outwit his own inner police system.”
“Mike Hammer drinks beer because I can't spell Cognac.”
“Heiresses are never jilted.”

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