"Something about this made Reynie uneasy. Had he done so badly? Was this meant to test his courage? He did as he was told, closing his eyes and bracing himself as best he could. "Why are you flinching?" the pencil woman asked. "I don't know. I thought maybe you were going to slap me." "Don't be ridiculous. I could slap you perfectly well with your eyes open. I'm only going to blindfold you."

-- Trenton Lee Stewart

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“A visionary is someone who sees the future with both insight and foresight: Insight into the deeper causes and meaning of events in the world, and foresight, or an intuitive grasp of the big picture, such as the trajectory of politics and popular culture.”

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“I definitely feel that we cannot do the fantastic things based on the real, unless we first know the real.”
“Being so rational, we have created a very simple version of ourselves.”
“It's nice to have one worry marched to the wings and forcefully thrown into the alleyway.”

Source : "Working Class Zero". Book by Rob Payne, Chapter 32, 2003.
“We have to start looking at the world through women's eyes' how are human rights, peace and development defined from the perspective of the lives of women? It's also important to look at the world from the perspective of the lives of diverse women, because there is not single women's view, any more than there is a single men's view.”
“The world would have you agree with its dismal dream of limitation. But the light would have you soar like the eagle of your sacred visions.”
“The first time I did a reading/signing thing at Cody's, the woman who did the introduction said something like that, and I wasn't the only one cringing. I remember looking out into the audience and seeing people's faces and people whispering to each other, and thinking like "Ugh, can we just cancel the whole thing? I can't go out there after she said that."”
“Do rewards motivate people? Absolutely. They motivate people to get rewards.”

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