"If you're not prepared to do something in public, don't do it at all."

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Source : Karen Traviss (2008). “Bloodlines: Star Wars Legends (Legacy of the Force)”, p.152, Del Rey

Karen Traviss

#Prepared Quotes

“The psychology of a complex mind must differ almost as much from that of a simple, mechanized mind as its psychology would from ours; because something that must underlie and perhaps be even greater than sex is involved.”

Source : "The World, the Flesh and the Devil: An Enquiry into the Future of the Three Enemies of the Rational Soul". Book by John Desmond Bernal, 1929.
“I'm always in favor of Israel responding strongly when it's threatened.”
“In my 33rd year, I was called to play Jesus.”
“The most destructive thing governments do is divide people against each other, all in competition over the reins of the state.”
“I was quite shy. I used to write stories all the time, and I think that was a worry for my parents.”

Source : "Real-life romance" by Harriet Lane, www.theguardian.com. February 8, 2004.
“Any hope that America would finally grow up vanished with the rise of fundamentalist Christianity. Fundamentalism, with its born-again regression, its pink-and-gold concept of heaven, its literal-mindedness, its rambunctious good cheer... its anti-intellectualism... its puerile hymns... and its faith-healing... are made to order for King Kid America.”

Source : Florence King (1990). “Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye”, p.33, Macmillan
“We have, for generations, been trying to be more inclusive of the word Southern. And a symbol like the confederate flag indicates white only are allowed into that world. And removing the Confederate flag from public view to the pages of history is long overdue.”

Source : "Confederate Flag Debate Symbolizes Rapid Change In The South". "All Things Considered" with Rachel Martin, www.npr.org. June 23, 2015.
“Music is proof that beauty is deeper than looks.”

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