"I would not, if I could, give up the memory of the joy I have had in books for any advantage that could be offered in other pursuits or occupations. Books have been to me what gold is to the miser, what new fields are to the explorer."

-- Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

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“I think of fear as a survival function, and in the stories that I write, the only thing that I've tried to do is provide people with nightmares which are really safe places to put those fears for a while because you can say afterwards that uh, that, that well it was all just make-believe anyway, so I just took my emotions for a walk.”
“I can assure you that most of the drivers have a lot of things they'd like to do, but racing keeps them from doing that. We're so restricted because of our long season. We have a one-and-a-half-month period where we get to do what we want - that's shorter than any other sport. It makes it tough, for sure.”
“Every stage of education begins with childhood. That is why the most educated person on earth so much resembles a child.”
“Great and terrible systems of divinity and philosophy lie round about us, which, if true, might drive a wise man mad.”
“Immunity corrupts; absolute immunity corrupts absolutely.”

Source : Analog Science Fiction and Fact Magazine, 1970.
“This is not the first time in my life where you know going into a job that you're going to hear in stereo what was wrong with what you did.”
“I read pretty voraciously. If it's good, I don't care what it is.”
“One way to open your eyes is to ask yourself, "What if I had never seen this before? What if I knew i would never see it again?”

Source : Rachel Carson (2011). “The Sense of Wonder”, p.24, Open Road Media

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