"I had begun to think my ripening body would wither untasted on the vine."

-- Jacqueline Carey

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“Time passes, as the novelist says. The single most useful trick of fiction for our repair and refreshment: the defeat of time. A century of family saga and a ride up an escalator can take the same number of pages. Fiction sets any conversion rate, then changes it in a syllable. The narratorâ€™s mother carries her child up the stairs and the reader follows, for days. But World War I passes in a paragraph. I needed 125 pages to get from Labor Day to Christmas vacation. In six more words, hereâ€™s spring.”

Source : Richard Powers (2009). “Generosity: An Enhancement”, p.166, Macmillan
“When we can say no not only to things that are wrong and sinful, but also to things pleasant, profitable, and good which would hinder and clog our grand duties and our chief work, we shall understand more fully what life is worth, and how to make the most of it.”
“I was very troubled, yes. Me and my brother both - we were troubled and troublemakers.”
“If you don't have your friends, you start to go a bit mad. That's why in the future I don't want to be constantly acting, going from one film to another. I just think it would be so very lonely to be away from your friends and family for so long and no proper kind of routine.”

Source : "The GQ+A: Meek Mill on Kendrick Lamar, Twitter Hashtags, and Being Rich Forever". Interview with Nate Erickson, www.gq.com. December 20, 2013.
“Money is a life skill â€“ and as parents, grandparents, interested adults â€“ it's up to us to make sure our children are prepared for the financial world they are going to face.”
“I was always playing the hard-bitten drunk.”

Source : Interview with Kenneth Plume, www.ign.com. January 10, 2002.
“All historical writing, even the most honest, is unconsciously subjective, since every age is bound, in spite of itself, to make the dead perform whatever tricks it finds necessary for its own peace of mind.”

Source : "The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth-Century Philosophers". Book by Carl L. Becker (Chapter II, pp. 43-44), 1932.
“If you share a good idea long enough, it will eventually fall on good people.”

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