"I don't want to lose too much of the mystery by hammering every detail to death."

-- Victoria Aveyard

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“If the time comes when our culture tires of the endless homicidal feuds, despairs of the use of force and war as a means of bringing peace, becomes discontent with the half-lives that its members are living - only then will our culture seriously look for alternatives.”
“As writers go, I have a skin of average thickness. I am pleased by a good review, disappointed by a bad. None of it penetrates far enough to influence the thing I write next.”

Source : "I was only being honest" by Rachel Cusk, www.theguardian.com. Match 21, 2008.
“For any practice to work, the mind which is meditating on the object must merge. Often they are facing each other. One has to become completely absorbed, then the transformation will occur.”
“Let us take our children seriously! Everything else follows from this...only the best is good enough for a child.”
“I was certainly not inclined to decriminalise. However, during my time in the unit, as I saw more and more evidence of 'what works', to quote New Labour's mantra of the time, it became apparent to me that ... enforcement and supply-side interventions were largely pointless. They have no significant, lasting impact on the availability, affordability or use of drugs.”
“In my dream world gay people in America would get the right to marry, and not a one of them would use that right.”
“What beauty brings is huge. It brings great privilege, great power and potential to do many things. If you are beautiful, doors open for you; people smile at you; you are accepted in places where others aren't. So the relationship that people have with beauty, in a sense, is almost deforming.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“Every act of energy conservation... is more than just common sense: I tell you it is an act of patriotism.”

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