"Expansion, that is the idea the novelist must cling to, not completion, not rounding off, but opening out."

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E. M. Forster

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“As nice as the Apple iPhone is, it poses a real challenge to its users. Try typing a web key on a touchscreen on an Apple iPhone, that's a real challenge. You cannot see what you type.”

Source : "RIM chiefs Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie's best quotes" by Charles Arthur, www.theguardian.com. June 29, 2012.
“Not that I am (I think) in much danger of ceasing to believe in God. The real danger is of coming to believe such dreadful things about Him. The conclusion I dread is not 'So there's no God after all,' but 'So this is what God's really like. Deceive yourself no longer.”
“When I was 13, I remember crying on my mum's shoulder when my first girlfriend dumped me via MSN Messenger. That was cold.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“As I said a moment ago, there is no higher priority in our budget, or certainly in the budgets of the past few years, than providing for what is needed for the protection and security of our country and support of our troops.”
“Deep joy is a serene and sober emotion, rarely evinced in open merriment.”
“I donâ€™t think there is any mystery to understanding the passionate feelings people have for guns. Nobody really believes itâ€™s about maintaining a militia. Itâ€™s about having possession of a tool that makes a person feel powerful nearly to the point of exaltation.”
“When it comes to mentors, you can't beat survival.”
“He's lived a fiction. And, of course, he thinks that if you love someone enough, they will love you. And that if you steer things enough, things will, under your control, come right. And this is the fiction of the controller: a controller thinks that they can control their life into being what they want it to be. But their life will never be what they want it to be until they stop controlling, and that is their journey.”

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