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Laini Taylor

"It wasnâ€™t like in the storybooks. No witches lurked at crossroads disguised as crones, waiting to reward travelers who shared their bread. Genies didnâ€™t burst from lamps, and talking fish didnâ€™t bargain for their lives. In all the world, there was only one place humans could get wishes: Brimstoneâ€™s shop. And there was only one currency he accepted. It wasnâ€™t gold, or riddles, or kindness, or any other fairy-tale nonsense, and no, it wasnâ€™t souls, either. It was weirder than any of that. It was teeth."

-- Laini Taylor

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“If the United Nations is to survive, those who represent it must bolster it; those who advocate it must submit to it; and those who believe in it must fight for it.”
“I suppose you are two fathoms deep in mathematics, and if you are, then God help you. For so am I, only with this difference: I stick fast in the mud at the bottom, and there I shall remain.”
“A single soul is richer than all the worlds.”
“I do a lot with characters' sense of identity. I also like challenging stereotypes, gender roles, things like that. Give me a stereotype or a genre expectation and the first thing I want to do is stand it on its head. In the Nightrunner books I wanted to see if I could create a believable gay hero, one who wasn't someone's sidekick or a victim.”
“...you're going to find people from all over the country, everyone hungry for money and position. You won't make a name for yourself just doing what the next man does. You'll have to distinguish yourself in some way.”

Source : Eiji Yoshikawa (1981). “Musashi”, HarperCollins Publishers
“The examples of vice at home corrupt us more quickly and easily than others, since they steal into our minds under the highest authority.”
“Prayer pushes us through life's slumps, propels us over the humps and pulls us out of the dumps. Prayer is the oomph we need to get the answers we seek.”
“The research worker, in his efforts to express the fundamental laws of Nature in mathematical form, should strive mainly for mathematical beauty. He should take simplicity into consideration in a subordinate way to beauty ... It often happens that the requirements of simplicity and beauty are the same, but where they clash, the latter must take precedence.”

Source : Lee Smolin (2013). “Time Reborn: From the Crisis in Physics to the Future of the Universe”, p.141, Knopf Canada

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