"The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves."

-- E. M. Forster

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“Finally, we should help developing nations like China and India curb their exponentially increasing consumption of oil and natural gas, which is driving world prices higher.”
“I am, of course, a frustrated rock star - I'd much rather be a rock star than a writer. Or own a record shop. Still, it's not a bad life, is it? You just sit at a computer and make stuff up.”

Source : "Ian Rankin: 'I am, of course, a frustrated rock star'" by Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. November 17, 2012.
“For any serious purpose, intelligence is a very minor gift.”

Source : G. H. Hardy (2012). “A Mathematician's Apology”, p.46, Cambridge University Press
“But 'Cuban Linx' was a project that really needed to come, and I really wanted to get it off my chest because I know that the fans were really skeptical about it, like 'is this really gonna be what it's supposed to be?' So once everybody caught it for what it was and everybody was happy, that's mission accomplished for me.”
“I'm like a tourist when I'm in London.”
“People need service - great service where music is concerned.”

Source : "Jimmy Iovine, Eddy Cue Talk Filling the 'Hole' With Apple Music". Interview with Steve Knopper, www.rollingstone.com. June 8, 2015.
“It's so much easier to write for an actor than for an imaginary character and then try to fit that character to an actor. It doesn't work very often in my experience.”
“It is now quite obvious that the humanists are using public education as the battering ram with which to destroy Christianity in the United States.”

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