"The writer is one who, emnbarking upon a task, does not know what to do."

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Donald Barthelme

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“Facebook can be an accumulation of different intelligences.”
“You don't need money to go big.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“Any woman who stays with her abuser beyond the first incident is complicitous with him.”
“Sometimes I can be walking down the street, or riding a bus, and suddenly I see somebody who remind me of somebody I know back home, and I close my eyes and find myself thinking of the sea, or the taste of grafted mango, or the smell of saltfish frying, and then I come back to myself and open my eyes and realise where I am.”

Source : Caryl Phillips (2009). “In the Falling Snow”, Harvill Press
“It happens to all of us, I concluded that Easter Sunday morning. God simply keeps reaching down into the dirt of humanity and resurrecting us from the graves we dig for ourselves through our violence, our lies, our selfishness, our arrogance, and our addictions. And God keeps loving us back to life over and over.”
“Claude Shannon, the founder of information theory, invented a way to measure 'the amount of information' in a message without defining the word 'information' itself, nor even addressing the question of the meaning of the message.”

Source : Hans Christian Von Baeyer (2004). “Information: The New Language of Science”, p.28, Harvard University Press
“The police were also ready with more formidable tools of intimidation. The office also assigned a veteran homicide prosecutor to oversee the investigation. All this activity sent a signal to Condit. If he didn't play ball, he might find himself called to testify before a grand jury under oath.”

Source : "CNN Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer", www.cnn.com. July 8, 2001.
“On sheer ability, Mario is good enough to win scoring titles with a broken stick. On pure talent, he's the best there is. But Wayne almost never disappoints you. He comes to work every night.”

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