"You're a big boy, you ought to understand that punctual transport, public order and safe streets, polite people and good medical services are all the achievements of dictatorship."

-- Sergei Lukyanenko

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“Oh sirs, deal with sin as sin, and speak of heaven and hell as they are, and not as if you were in jest.”
“There are many true statements about complex topics that are too long to fit on a PowerPoint slide.”
“Just getting out of your town seems to be a pervasive thing in England. But I don't want to keep grinding the axe forever, it's boring.”

Source : "The Cribs' Gary Jarman Talks Johnny Marr Collaboration, New Album". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. June 12, 2009.
“A lot of writers, especially crime writers, have an image that we think we're trying to keep up with. You've got to be seen as dark and slightly dangerous. But I'm not like that and I've realised that I don't need to put that on. People will buy the books whether they see a photo of you dressed in black or not.”
“The risk of an all-out nuclear holocaust destroying all life on the planet has diminished, but the danger of actual nuclear weapons use has increased.”
“I cant write about something I dont admire. It goes back to the old concept of the celebration: you celebrate the hero, an idea.”

Source : Frank O'Connor, Michael A. Steinman (1994). “A Frank O'Connor Reader”, p.13, Syracuse University Press
“Exploratory research is really like working in a fog. You don't know where you're going. You're just groping. Then people learn about it afterwards and think how straightforward it was.”
“I think The Exorcist was the hardest work I've ever done”

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