"Put simply, I want to treat my readers as partners and not crooks. There is no future in calling your most active promoters crooks."

-- Cory Doctorow

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“Les trois quarts de nos exercices intellectuels ne sont plus que broderies sur le vide. Three quarters of our intellectual performances are no more than decorations over a void.”
“I want to move on with my life and do something where I get my own voice.”
“There's a lady up in heaven who must be very proud of the way the people in Baltimore have treated her boy from the Bronx.”
“Summer comes over the hill like a hairy blanket.”

Source : Donna Jo Napoli (1995). “The Magic Circle”, p.8, Penguin
“I believe young children in particular enjoy witnessing the survival of youthful protagonists against terrible odds. I think it's gratifying to the reader when you give young characters that kind of agency.”
“Sometimes when, you know, God tries to correct you in private and if you don't catch it he'll correct you in public.”
“As long as you're having fun and still doing stuff, it doesn't matter what other people think.”
“Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.”

Source : Robert H. Schuller (1993). “Robert H Schuller: The Inspirational Writings : Tough Times Never Last, But Tough People Do/Tough Minded Faith for Tender Hearted People”, Bbs Publishing Corporation

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