"I got so discouraged, I almost stopped writing. It was my 12-year-old son who changed my mind when he said to me, "Mother, you've been very cross and edgy with us and we notice you haven't been writing. We wish you'd go back to the typewriter. That did a lot of good for my false guilts about spending so much time writing. At that point, I acknowledged that I am a writer and even if I were never published again, that's what I am.""

-- Madeleine L'Engle

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“Besides, everywhere, life is getting longer, marriages fall apart, divorce is a reality that happens even where the law doesn't sanction it. It remains the tradition that women are trusted to take care of the children.”
“They're getting me involved in intrigue again, and I think it follows a classic formula in a soap opera.”
“You're jeans are full of crap. You're full of beans, you're in you teens. You've lost your mama's road map.”
“I think 'The Hunger Games' has a really powerful message about survival, and sacrificing for the ones you love. It's almost like a warning for us to not lose touch of our humanity. We live in a world in which we watch other's misfortunes for entertainment.”
“Devices are getting smarter - your television, your car - and that means more data spread around. There needs to be a fabric that connects all these devices. That's what we do.”

Source : "How Did This 28-Year-Old Frat Boy End Up Worth $600 Million? A Dropbox FAQ". Interview with Nicholas Carlson, www.businessinsider.com. October 18, 2011.
“The whole gamut of good and evil is in every human being, certain notes, from stronger original quality or most frequent use, appearing to form the whole character; but they are only the tones most often heard. The whole scale is in every soul, and the notes most seldom heard will on rare occasions make themselves audible.”
“I would have to say that looked like it hurt.”
“Don't force it... get a bigger hammer.”

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