"In the course of writing one historical book or another, it has happened that I could hardly restrain myself from simply copying entire documents. Indeed, I sometimes sank down among the documents and said to myself, I can't improve on these."

-- Alfred Doblin

#Book Quotes #Writing Quotes #Objectivity Quotes

“I really think I like poisonous snakes.”
“I'm satisfied with the way 'The Room' turned out, and I don't want to change anything.”
“How you feel right now is about equally genetic and circumstantial, but how you will feel on average over the next ten years is fully 80 percent because of your genes.”
“...When I asked [my dad why the sky was blue] he said it was because God's a boy. If God were a girl, the sky would be pink. 'What about sunrise and sunset?' I'd asked. Dad had looked dumbfounded. 'You kids. You think too much.' It frightened me how shallow the gene pool was that Liam and I were wading in.”
“It's exciting to think that something I'm involved in is touching so many people in so many cultures.”
“There's so many inspiring people out there.”
“Our practice is not to clear up the mystery. It is to make the mystery clear.”
“Newborn screening is a public health intervention that involves a simple blood test used to identify many life-threatening genetic illnesses before any symptoms begin.”

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