"He felt that he had to find Salander and hold her close. She would probably bite him if he tried."

-- Steig Larsson

“Not in vain is Ireland pouring itself all over the earth. ... The Irish, with their glowing hearts and reverent credulity, are needed in this cold age of intellect and skepticism.”
“Say to yourself in the early morning: I shall meet today ungrateful, violent, treacherous, envious, uncharitable men. All of these things have come upon them through ignorance of real good and ill... I can neither be harmed by any of them, for no man will involve me in wrong, nor can I be angry with my kinsman or hate him; for we have come into the world to work together...”
“The only true animal is a cat, and the only true cat is a gray cat.”
“There is, happily, no limit to the faith of human nature in believing what it wants to believe.”
“For Singapore, its test for its own democracy must be whether it fit and serve the interests of its people and conditions, and not serve some abstract ideal that the Western media thought it ought to conform to. If in 10 years, Philippines, Taiwan and Korea were better societies because they adopted the US model, Singapore would hurry to catch.”
“World only has two things: Things you can eat and things you can no eat.”
“Having a dream is what keeps you alive. Overcoming the challenges makes life worth living.”
“I love accents - I wish I could find an accent for every one of my characters. It makes it so much easier when I don't have to hear my own voice.”

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