"Diaspora starts about a thousand years from now. Most of human civilisation has moved inside computers; essentially, a major branch of our descendants consists of conscious software."

-- Greg Egan

#Years Quotes #Branches Quotes #Diaspora Quotes

“If you want to do this - either write for TV, or write books - the first thing you have to do is write a lot. And I mean a ridiculous amount.”

Source : Source: www.mtv.com
“I think the more successful you are, the bigger your hair gets.”

Source : Source: www.gq.com
“I grew up in the South [USA states] under segregation. I know what terrorism feels like - when your father could be taken out in the middle of the night and lynched just because he didn't look like he was in an obeying frame of mind when a white person said something he must do. That's terrorism, too.”
“If the poem can be improved by the author's explanations, it never should have been published.”
“The people we love are usually stronger than we give them credit for. It is the nature of love, perhaps, to want to shoulder all the pain rather than see the loved one suffer. But sometimes pain is better than emptiness. I have been so empty Kit. All my life. So full of emptiness. That is strange paradox is nit not - full of emptiness?”

Source : Mary Balogh (2010). “A Summer To Remember: Number 2 in series”, p.164, Hachette UK
“In North Korea, we never learned to think critically. There is no concept of individualism. The government treated us as less valuable than animals. You can't even stay overnight at someone's house without permission from the police. My mother warned me not to say - or even think - anything bad about our "dear leader," Kim Jong Il, because "even the birds and mice can hear you whisper."”
“No matter how much you're going to be criticized or no matter how big of a risk it is, the boldness is the thing that helps you”

Source : FaceBook post by Nicole Kidman from Jan 27, 2017
“Bad leadership during the past years has cast on our Party the shadow of great and grave burdens.”

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