"A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you."

-- Daniel J. Boorstin

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“I was once on a panel where we concluded that the only things you couldn't have in YA were boring and beastiality. Now with the introduction of shapeshifters, I'd say just boring.”
“It's always hard when you've known a person a long time and then you have to recognise that you have nothing left in common but your memories.”
“We need to incorporate that age-old concept of redemption into the work that we do in the criminal justice system in California.”
“You know, I grew up in two American internment camps, and at that time I was very young.”
“My photos tend to be confusing. I show a great many vistas.”
“Holland's and Kauffman's work, together with Dawkins' simulations of evolution and Varela's models of autopoietic systems, provide essential inspiration for the new discipline of artificial life, This approach, initiated by Chris Langton (1989, 1992), tries to develop technological systems (computer programs and autonomous robots) that exhibit lifelike properties, such as reproduction, sexuality, swarming, and co-evolution.”
“So you are a vampire." "I most certainly am not." He looked annoyed. "That's such a common phrase, such a cliche, and so unflattering. I suppose you believe in werewolves and aliens too. I blame television.”
“I knew that if the feat was accomplished it must be at a most fearful sacrifice of as brave and gallant soldiers as ever engaged in battle.”

Source : John Bell Hood (1996). “Advance and Retreat: Personal Experiences in the United States and Confederate States Armies”, p.58, U of Nebraska Press

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