"I mean, if we're regulating cigarettes and sex and cuss words, because of the effect they have on our younger generation, why aren't we regulating things like calling people fat?"

-- Jennifer Lawrence

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“Servitude, in many cases, is not forced upon by the masters, but a temptation of the servants.”
“Like the people that in the 60s or 70s claimed the "end of painting" - all they did was open up a whole new branch for painting. Happily, it doesn't work. It's not a reason for art. Closing something out is not a reason for something to exist.”

Source : Source: frontrow.dmagazine.com
“I write very raw, ugly, illiterate first drafts very quickly (novels are always in first draft in under a year) and then I spend years and years fine-tuning, revising, editing, etc. What inspires me? Who knows. I am not inspired that much. Thatâ€™s why I write long form fictionâ€”I am not much of a short story writer. Ideas come seldom, but when a good one comes, I really stick to it and see it out. Iâ€™m a problem-solverâ€”I've never thrown out an entire manuscript; I've always forced myself to repair it until it was a lovable thing again.”

Source : "Beyond Diaspora: Porochista Khakpour". Interview with Roxanne Naseem Rashedi, lareviewofbooks.org. February 17, 2013.
“I let him know a hurt had been mended in a way that he couldnâ€™t have known, and for that alone there would always be a piece of me indebted to him.”

Source : Jojo Moyes (2012). “Me Before You: A Novel”, p.353, Penguin
“No matter how big the lie; repeat it often enough and the masses will regard it as the truth.”
“In seventeen of His thirty-seven parables, Jesus dealt with property and man's responsibility for using it wisely.”

Source : George Sweeting (2012). “How to Begin the Christian Life: Following Jesus as a New Believer”, p.128, Moody Publishers
“An asteroid can literally destroy 80 or 90 percent of the species that are alive on Earth. These are big events. I mean, this is called extinction.”

Source : "Asteroid". "NOVA scienceNOW" with Neil Degrasse Tyson, www.pbs.org. October 3, 2006.
“Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without.”

Source : Joseph Wood Krutch (1967). “And Even If You Do: Essays on Man, Manners & Machines”

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