"How easy is murder when one calls it by a different name? How much easier is it for the conscience to condone "reaping" than "killing"-and when one knows that death isn't the end, does it stop the killing hand for fear of retribution, or does it simply make it easier to kill, because, if life continues, how can murder be murder at all?"

-- Neal Shusterman

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“Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong.”
“It is always dangerous to the liberties of the people to have an army stationed among them, over which they have no control ... The Militia is composed of free Citizens. There is therefore no danger of their making use of their Power to the destruction of their own Rights, or suffering others to invade them.”
“A goal is the basic unit of life design.”
“One can only become a philosopher, but not be one. As one believes he is a philosopher, he stops being one.”
“I'm naturally quite lazy, and I actually think I'm lax about my career. None of my work defines who I am.”

Source : "Catherine the Great" by Miranda Sawyer, www.theguardian.com. October 14, 2006.
“Every addiction is an attempt to slay hope.”
“There's something wrong with a mother who washes out a measuring cup with soap and water after she's only measured water in it.”
“In a sense my whole life as a writer is trying to find structural ways, or formal ways, to permit that outflowing so it doesn't just look like crazy output. In other words, if it turns out that you can do a given voice, that's just kind of inclination. But then if you can find a way to put that voice in a story so that the voice serves a purpose, then I would say that's being a writer.”

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