"Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, exhibit number one is what the seraphs, the misinformed, simple, noble-winged seraphs, envied. Look at this tangle of thorns."

-- Vladimir Nabokov

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“I would say everything in our life in the next 25 years is going to be tied into the Internet, and it's going to be the place for communications, for education, for conducting business and everything.”
“People have been asking me if I was going to have kids, and I had puppies instead.”
“It is true that I grew up in an affluent neighborhood and went to a prestigious school. But there were horrors that went on behind closed doors.”

Source : "Hawaii, Mortuaries, And Saving Kurt Vonnegut: An Interview With Kirby Wright". Interview with Jane Ormerod, www.greatweatherformedia.com. September 5, 2013.
“What is best and most necessary usually happens.”
“The English inn stands permanently planted at the confluence of the roads of history, memory, and romance.”

Source : Martha Grimes (2013). “The Man with a Load of Mischief”, p.37, Simon and Schuster
“I've been singing ever since I was little, but I didn't start taking it seriously until I was about 15 or 16.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Fiction allows us to see the world from the point of view of someone else and there has been quite a lot of neurological research that shows reading novels is actually good for you. It embeds you in society and makes you think about other people. People are certainly better at all sorts of things if they can hold a novel in their heads. It is quite a skill, but if you can't do it then you're missing out on something in life. I think you can tell, when you meet someone, whether they read novels or not. There is some little hollowness if they don't.”

Source : "Philip Hensher: a life in writing" by Nicholas Wroe, www.theguardian.com. March 30, 2012.
“I spend around one hour per day on physical exercise. Exercise is a must for every chess player. As the proverb says, 'A sound mind in a sound body'.”

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