"I am I because my little dog knows me but, creatively speaking the little dog knowing that you are you and your recognising that he knows, that is what destroys creation. That is what makes school."

-- Gertrude Stein

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“People do not spring forth out of the blue, fully formed â€“ they become themselves slowly, day by day, starting from babyhood. They are the result of both environment and heredity, and your fictional characters, in order to be believable, must be also.”
“Is a lie really a lie if it is honestly believed?”

Source : Anthony Ryan (2014). “Tower Lord”, p.310, Penguin
“Surely the world will be a better place, at least marginally, if people have a better understanding of Kant and Hegel, if Marx's thought its studied and appreciated, if people gain a better understanding of Fichte, whose philosophy is far more important than people realize.”
“He who seeks truth must be content with a lonely, little-trodden path. If he cannot worship her till she has been canonized by the shouts of the multitude, he must take his place with the members of that wretched crowd who shouted for two long hours, "Great is Diana of the Ephesians!" till truth, reason, and calmness were all drowned in noise.”
“Many voted in 2008 with the desire to see racism and racists humiliated by having a qualified black man elected president.”

Source : "The 'Bradley effect' and Obama" by L.Douglas Wilder, www.politico.com. May 14, 2012.
“In the early days of the video game business, everybody played. The question is, what happened? My theory - and I think it's pretty well borne out - is that in the '80s, games got gory, and that lost the women. And then they got complex, and that lost the casual gamer.”
“I also believe that writing becomes worthwhile and vitalized only through a full and exciting life.”
“Pay less attention to what you hear about someone, and more to what you learn about them...as you make the effort.”

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