"But you know me-I'm an information magpie, always interested in shiny bits of intel. I've never gotten in trouble because of knowing too much."

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Tim Pratt

#Knowing Quotes #Too Much Quotes #Information Quotes

“I try to live right. I always try to adhere to what I think is right, and that, to me, is the most important part of creative work.”
“The really big problem with China is that there are the unfair trade practices, like currency manipulation, illegal export subsidies and the theft of intellectual property, but then there's also things that the WTO doesn't cover that it should, which is the use of sweat shops and pollution havens.”
“One of the anomalies of modern ecology is the creation of two groups, each of which seems barely aware of the existence of the other. The one studies the human community, almost as if it were a separate entity, and calls its findings sociology, economics and history. The other studies the plant and animal community and comfortably relegates the hodge-podge of politics to the liberal arts. The inevitable fusion of these two lines of thought will, perhaps, constitute the outstanding advance of this century.”
“And the nice thing about writing a novel is you take your time, you sit with the character sometimes nine years, you look very deeply at a situation, unlike in real life when we just kind of snap something out.”
“I like the confusion you get between science and religion â€¦ thatâ€™s where belief lies and art as well.”
“The American Dream was not about government's taking huge sums of money (under the label of "taxation") from citizens by force. The American Dream was about individualism and the opportunity to achieve success without interference from others.”
“There you go. Use your granddaughter to pick up women. That'll get you points in heaven.”

Source : Jennifer Rardin (2011). “Bitten To Death: Book four in the Jaz Parks sequence”, p.124, Hachette UK
“The trouble with American History is that you don't remember it, and why should you? Nobody does.”

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