"Angela Carter's fiction blew me away and really instilled a passion for writing, bolstered by Vladimir Nabokov. But in general, I can't point to any one thing. I just always loved books and writing."

-- Jeff VanderMeer

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“I gave my life to learning how to live. Now that I have organized it all ... it's just about over.”
“Bachelors begin at thirty-six. Up till this age they are regarded as single men.”

Source : Jilly Cooper (2011). “Men And Supermen”, p.22, Random House
“Southerners have never been afraid of seasoning. It's kind of the other way around; our seasoning is afraid of us.”

Source : "Deen Does 'Southern' Fare ... With A Stick Of Butter". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. October 11, 2011.
“Law is the rudder of the ship of state.”
“He's really sort of the devil. He's completely emotionally detached. He has no empathy. You find that in psychopaths. It's about power with Voldemort. It's an aphrodisiac for him. Power makes him feel alive.”
“Around 2001, I started analyzing lesbians. I started to realize that even really butch-acting or -dressing women still had a strong female identity that I never had.”
“In London - and forget those extra public pressures on politicians - the lovely old Sloane world of manor houses simply hasn't cut it since Big Bang in 1986, the point at which Mrs. Thatcher really started to achieve her ambition to make this country more like America - its ambition, economy, it's very tangible measures of success.”
“Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.”

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