"I enjoy research; in fact research is so engaging that it would be easy to go on for years, and never write the novel at all."

-- Helen Dunmore

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“The ones who look the most suspicious are likely innocent. It's the ones who look innocent I need to beware.”

Source : George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows”, p.933, Bantam
“I once lost a bill betting on the Red Sox, ...But that's another topic.”
“I decided once and for all that I was going to make it or die.”
“The problem remains that the market is grossly distorted by Canadian unfair trade practices.”
“I've got to say that I don't see myself as some sort of political type like Alec Baldwin or Barbra Streisand. I don't want to come across like that. I'd be embarrassed if that was the way I came across.”
“What we take ourselves to be doing when we think about what is the case or how we should act is something that cannot be reconciled with a reductive naturalism, for reasons distinct from those that entail the irreducibility of consciousness. It is not merely the subjectivity of thought but its capacity to transcend subjectivity and to discover what is objectively the case that presents a problem....Thought and reasoning are correct or incorrect in virtue of something independent of the thinker's beliefs, and even independent of the community of thinkers to which he belongs. (p. 71)”
“I've always had an obligation to creation, above all.”
“'Good enough' stopped being good enough a long time ago. so why not be great?”

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