"No one likes my books except the public."

-- Mickey Spillane

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“How deeply do any of us know our own selves? Ask yourself. We hold a picture of how we wish to be and hope it goes forever unchallenged. Passing through life never pursuing aspects of our natures with which we'd rather not reckon. Dying strangers to ourselves.”

Source : Craig Davidson (2012). “Sarah Court”, p.64, ChiZine Publications
“As the biocentric view suggests, the garden prospers when control is balanced by equal measures of humility and benevolence. A balance is struck. Control, servitude, respect, imagination, pragmatism, an ecological conscience, compliance, and a certain measure of mysticism and altruism, all meld together to provide nurturance.”

Source : Jim Nollman (2005). “Why We Garden: Cultivating a Sense of Place”, p.104, Sentient Publications
“The round towers of the castles looked as if they were so firmly encrusted in the sky that, to get to their other side, one would have to hew out a passage through the celestial marble.”

Source : Hope Mirrlees (2012). “Lud-in-the-Mist”, p.62, F+W Media, Inc.
“Let me announce this to the American people tonight one of the best things about this debate, as a Democrat from Massachusetts, I have proposed eliminating, getting rid of the alternative minimum tax.”
“I've been a writer since I was 16. I didn't get published until I was 24. I know that sounds crazy.”
“Your patience will be rewarded.”

Source : "Good Eats". Documentary, www.imdb.com. 1999 - 2012.
“The Holocaust has proven to be an indispensable ideological weapon. Through its deployment, one of the world's most formidable military powers, with a horrendous human rights record, has cast itself as a "victim" state, and the most successful ethnic group in the US has likewise acquired victim status.”

Source : "The business of death" by Norman Finkelstein, www.theguardian.com. July 12, 2000.
“In my last band, Soundgarden, I had a couple of different drummers sit in on some stuff and it was fun for me to kind of take a break and watch the band.”

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