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“There were so many individual styles thirty or forty years ago.”
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“If we were given one word of information in our entire history, how we'd treasure it! how we'd pore over ever syllable, divining it's meaning, arguing its importance; how we'd examine it and wring every lesson we could from it. Yet today we have trillions of words, tidal waves of information and the smallest detail of every action our government and businesses take is easily available to us at the touch of a button. And yet...we ignore it, and learn nothing from it. One day we'll die of voluntary ignorance”
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“Before I would hurt a child, I would slit my wrists.”
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“Atheists have an excellent longevity record because we have no place to go after we die, so we take good care of ourselves and our world while we are here.”
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“The mere attempt to examine my own confusion would consume volumes.”
Source : James Agee (2005). “Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: A Death in the Family, & Shorter Fiction”
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“There is a power so organized, so subtle, so complete, and so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.”
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“Let whatever's going to happen, happen. Don't judge it before you do it. Sure, sometimes it will be terrible, but sometimes it will just be amazing. That's where the gold is.”
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“A lot of times, identifying with a character in a book or a movie makes me feel really vulnerable. Especially in books, it's like being able to see an amplified version of yourself, and it's very surreal.”
Source : Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. 
