"Angry men with pointy things sent to secure a foreign city are pretty much alike anywhere. That's what I've heard. So far nothing's convinced me different."

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Source : Sherwood Smith (2009). “King's Shield: Book Three of Inda”, p.432, Penguin

Sherwood Smith

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“Making strides in areas unencumbered by hard-won expectation feels effervescent. By switching into child-mode, shuffling the cortex, we remember our innocence, when we knew less. These are the essentials of continued aesthetic discovery.”
“From my perspective, there's no reason to be afraid of aging, because if you age, you're lucky! The alternative is death.”
“I never took a computer science course in college, because then it was a thing you just learned on your own.”
“Many people are afraid to talk about race because it's so emotionally loaded. We don't have the vocabulary to talk about it. Every day, our vocabulary seems more and more inadequate.”
“There's one thing you're better at than I am, and that's kissing Vince McMahon's ass. You're as good as kissing Vince's ***** as Hulk Hogan was. -To John Cena”
“The Berlin Wall go down, that was the most wonderful thing that could happen, absolutely. I celebrated with everybody in Berlin that day when the Wall was down.”
“Our society does reward beauty on the outside over health on the inside. Women must not be blamed for choosing short-term beauty "fixes" that harm our long-term health, since our life spans are inverted under the beauty myth, and there is no great social or economic incentive for women to live a long time.”
“I do find walking is fundamental to my creative process.”

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