"The best fiction is far more true than any journalism."

-- William Faulkner

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“We have seen that blood united to blood in the case of but remotely connected species of animals, kills; blood united to blood in the case of more closely allied species of animals does not kill. The physical organism of man survives when strange blood comes in contact with strange blood, ... but clairvoyant power perishes under the influence of this mixing of blood, or exogamy.”
“Once you've produced the scientific data that's necessary to make a drug into a medicine, you've gone a long way towards mainstreaming the acceptance of these drugs as having beneficial properties. And then the step to legalization is not that far behind that.”
“The laws of chess are as beautiful as those governing the universe - and as deadly.”

Source : Katherine Neville (2015). “A Calculated Risk: A Novel”, p.91, Open Road Media
“I am completely half afraid to think.”

Source : Flann O'Brien (1996). “The Third Policeman: A Novel”
“Some people get into this business and they're so afraid to lose anything. They try to protect their position like clinging to a beachhead. These Actor s end up making really safe choices. I never wanted to go that route. If I go down, I'm going down swinging. I know that's the way Heath Ledger feels and Ben Affleck feels the same way, too. We want to take the big swings...”
“I have got so low that I have asked to be hospitalized and for deep narcosis (sleep). I cannot stand being awake. The pain is too much... Something has happened to me, this vital spark has stopped burning - I go to a dinner table now and I don't say a word, just sit there like a dodo. Normally I am the centre of attention, keeps the conversation going, - so that is depressing in itself. It's like another person taking over, very strange. The most important thing I say is 'good evening' and then I go quiet.”
“To feel grateful is one of the most important experiences we need as humans. When we feel it, there is an acceptance of everything in our life.”
“We have to be very aggressive, to go to the limit of what's legal.”

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