"With fiction, thereâ€™s no reason why everything you write shouldnâ€™t be amazing. Nobodyâ€™s stopping you from making up better stuff."

-- Wells Tower

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“Perfection is lots of little things done well.”
“I fear I have not one good word to say this fair morning, though the sun shines so encouragingly on the distant hills and gentle river and the trees are in their festive hues. I am not festive, though contented. When obliged to give myself to the prose of life, as I am on this occasion of being established in a new home I like to do the thing, wholly and quite, - to weave my web for the day solely from the grey yarn.”
“Be moral. Be brave. Be a heart-whole man, strictly moral, brave unto desperation. Don't bother your head with religious theories. Cowards only sin, brave men never, no, not even in mind.”
“Hark ye, you Cocklyn and la Bouche, I find by strengthening you, I have put a rod into your hands to whip myself, but I am still able to deal with you both; but since we met in love, let us part in love, for I find that three of a trade can never agree.”
“Man should regard lower animals as being in the same dependent condition as minors under his government ... For a man to torture an animal whose life God has put into his hands, is a disgrace to his species.”
“When dealing in the technology, it becomes a question of whether you overuse something. I think that's worse than having something technologically available to you and not using it.”

Source : "Al Michaels Interview" by John Scott Lewinski, www.askmen.com.
“I think in many ways, the texture of technology actually diminishes human beings. It doesn't augment them.”
“If your parent is deployed and you are that young, you spend the whole time wondering where they are and waiting for them to come home. As time passes and the absence is longer and longer, you become more and more concerned - but you don't really have the words to express your concern. There's only this continued absence.”

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