"[...] Technology has tended to devaluate the traditional vision-inducing materials. The illumination of a city, for example, was once a rare event, reserved for victories and national holidays, for the canonization of saints and the crowning of kings. Now it occurs nightly and celebrates the virtues of gin, cigarettes and toothpaste."

-- Aldous Huxley

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“It is in scientific honesty that I endorse the presentation of alternative theories for the origin of the universe, life and man in the science classroom. It would be an error to overlook the possibility that the universe was planned rather than happening by chance.”
“I was always in trouble from an early age. I had a fraught relationship with my parents, who were very traditional. Doing plays at school was a joyous release.”
“Never pay attention to the rumors and what they assume”
“Answerless questions can destroy you. Move on.”

Source : David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.129, Egmont UK
“Probably the best way to describe my writing style is to refer you to "purple prose", which was a tag given to the early mass market magazine writers earning a half cent a word for their fiction. They had to use every adjective, verb and adverb in the English language to add word count to stories in order to feed and support families.”

Source : Source: ravenswoodpublishing.blogspot.com
“I can honestly say, all the bad things that ever happened to me were directly, directly attributed to drugs and alcohol. I mean, I would never urinate at the Alamo at nine o'clock in the morning dressed in a woman's evening dress sober.”

Source : MTV News Online, 1992.
“We weep when we are born, Not when we die!”

Source : thomas bailey aldrich (1875). “cloth of gold and other poems”, p.127
“He showed the words â€œchocolate cakeâ€ to a group of Americans and recorded their word associations. â€œGuiltâ€ was the top response. If that strikes you as unexceptional, consider the response of French eaters to the same prompt: â€œcelebration.”

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