"How many lives we live in one, And how much less than one, in all."

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Source : Alice Cary, Phoebe Cary, Mary Clemmer (1876). “The Poetical Works of Alice and Phoebe Cary”, p.173

Alice Cary

“Literature, like magic, has always been about the handling of secrets, about the pain, the destruction, and the marvelous liberation that can result when they are revealed. If a writer doesn't give away secrets, his own or those of the people he loves, if he doesn't court disapproval, reproach and general wrath, whether of friends, family or party apparatchiks... the result is pallid, inanimate, a lump of earth.”
“You cannot control the results, only your actions.”
“I don't go out to clubs. You'll never see me on a table at a bar, jumping up and down.”
“Clearly, programming courses should teach methods of design and construction, and the selected examples should be such that a gradual development can be nicely demonstrated.”
“An ounce of image is worth a pound of performance”
“Writing is my only interest. Even speaking is an interruption.”
“[O]ne might ask why, in a galaxy of a few hundred billion stars, the aliens are so intent on coming to Earth at all. It would be as if every vertebrate in North America somehow felt drawn to a particular house in Peoria, Illinois. Are we really that interesting?”
“Alcoholism plus criminality plus whatever caused both in the first place form a combination that is very nearly happy-ending-proof.”

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