"Unless you're Stephen King or Joyce Carol Oates, no one's going to recognize you on the street, and you're promoting your book, not yourself."

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Debra Dean

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“...it just goes to show you can't leave anything behind. You bring it all with you, whether you want to or not.”

Source : Stef Penney (2008). “The Tenderness of Wolves: A Novel”, p.8, Simon and Schuster
“Today we have big, crude instruments guided by intelligent surgeons, and we have little, stupid molecules of drugs that get dumped into the body, diffuse around and interfere with things as best they can. At present, medicine is unable to heal anything.”
“When I was 12, I first made the decision to go vegetarian after a co-star's line 'I don't eat anything with a face' suddenly shocked me into reality.”
“It is my observations, though, that happiness limits the amount of suffering one is willing to inflict upon others”

Source : Jacqueline Carey (2002). “Kushiel's Dart”, p.456, Macmillan
“As a golfer, you feel like you're perpetually on the rack [in foursomes]. Mentally, it's very difficult.”
“Our focus is and should be on the leakers, not those that are obtaining it as part of legitimate newsgathering.”

Source : Source: www.washingtonpost.com
“Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.”
“The art of drawing conclusions from experiments and observations consists in evaluating probabilities and in estimating whether they are sufficiently great or numerous enough to constitute proofs. This kind of calculation is more complicated and more difficult than it is commonly thought to be. . . .”

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