"I read a lot of biographies and books with an African background."

-- Wilbur Smith

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“It's a libel to say that I use my newspapers to support my other business interests. The fact is, I haven't got any other business interests.”
“I've always wondered what it would be like if somebody from outer space landed with three heads. Then all of a sudden everybody else wouldn't look so bad, huh? Well, OK you're a little different from me but, hey, ya got one head.”
“Anyone who expects a person to change something as private and personal as who they hold in their arms at night needs to change their own judgmental attitude.”
“If your starting point for understanding humanity is a racialist viewpoint, with superiority and inferiority projected onto people because of the color of their skin, then it's so easy to take the next step of justifying that point theologically and reading it into the Christian scripture. And that makes it harder to understand what scripture is actually saying!”

Source : Source: reflections.yale.edu
“I may not be a pin-up, but I'm one hell of a boxer.”
“Cliché openings in fantasy can include an opening scene set in a battle (and my peeve is that I don’t know any of the characters yet so why should I care about this battle) or with a pastoral scene where the protagonist is gathering herbs (I didn’t realize how common this is).”
“The game taught me the game.”

Source : Edwin Lefèvre, Jon D. Markman (2010). “Reminiscences of a Stock Operator: With New Commentary and Insights on the Life and Times of Jesse Livermore”, p.36, John Wiley & Sons
“The programmers have another saying: 'The question of whether a machine can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.'”

Source : Charles Stross (2011). “Rule 34”, p.140, Penguin

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