"The odd thing about people who had many books was how they always wanted more."

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Source : Patricia A. McKillip (2008). “The Bell at Sealey Head”, p.30, Penguin

Patricia A. McKillip

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“I don't hold myself dictated to by what everyone is saying, by the tabloids or popular opinion. I don't like bourgeois values. I say you find your own way to live.”

Source : "James Salter: The Greatest Writer You've Never Read" by Alex Bilmes, www.esquire.com. June 21, 2015.
“The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. "One word of truth outweighs the world.”
“It's very good for an idea to be commonplace. The important thing is that a new idea should develop out of what is already there so that it soon becomes an old acquaintance. Old acquaintances aren't by any means always welcome, but at least one can't be mistaken as to who or what they are.”

Source : Penelope Fitzgerald (1998). “The Gate of Angels”, p.202, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I'm not good at selling laptops. I'm good at selling ideas.”
“I continue to see a healthy PC market, very healthy. The machines will continue to morph; you'll see smaller machines that have more capability.”
“I'm not a big fan of there being voiceovers in movies. I really prefer it when the film tells it story.”
“It would be difficult to have any unfulfilled ambitions because I don't have any ambitions. I've never been that kind of performer.”
“Because, you see, Godâ€”whatever anyone chooses to call Godâ€”is one's highest conception of the highest possible. And whoever places his highest conception above his own possibility thinks very little of himself and his life. It's a rare gift, you know, to feel reverence for your own life and to want the best, the greatest, the highest possible, here, now, for your very own. To imagine a heaven and then not to dream of it, but to demand it.”

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