"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."

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Source : "The Age of Miracles". Interview with Mark Medley, nationalpost.com. July 13, 2012.

Karen Thompson Walker

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“The social principles of Christianity preach cowardice, self-contempt, abasement, submission, humility, in a word all the qualities of the canaille”
“Sometimes the best way to make 'em laugh is to show 'em how you honestly feel.”
“First Europe, and then the globe, will be linked by flight, and nations so knit together that they will grow to be next-door neighbors. . . . What railways have done for nations, airways will do for the world.”

Source : Claude Grahame-White, Harry Harper (1915). “The aeroplane”
“Comment is free but facts are sacred.”

Source : Manchester Guardian, 5 May 1921
“Whenever you're making an important decision, first ask if it gets you closer to your goals or farther away.”
“Anon out of the earth a fabric huge Rose, like an exhalation.”
“The tension between what is, and what we dream of, is important. Not to discount what we have, but to hold onto that middle ground, because it's in there that the magic happens.”
“For Christians, who believe they are created in the image of God, it is the Godhead, diversity in unity and the three-in-oneness of God, which we and all creation reflect.”

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