"(Feedback) People become addicted to it. Thatâ€™s why journalism is so popular, because you want to hear, every day, what people think of what you just wrote. I think a little patience on that front can be good, too."

-- Zadie Smith

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“No proper princess would come out looking for dragons," Woraug objected. "Well I'm not a proper princess then!" Cimorene snapped. "I make cherries jubillee and I volunteer for dragons, and I conjugate Latin verbs-- or at least I would if anyone would let me. So there!”

Source : Patricia C. Wrede (2015). “The Enchanted Forest Chronicles: [Boxed Set]”, p.23, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Iâ€™d like to have enough time and quiet To think about absolutely nothing, To not ever feel myself living, To only know myself in othersâ€™ eyes, reflected.”
“Your theory of partial immortality is abhorrent to me. I would rather disbelieve in the immortality of my own soul than suppose the boon given to me was withheld from any of my fellow creatures.”
“We got some devastating reviews on Animal House at the start.”

Source : Interview with Joshua Klein, www.avclub.com. May 17, 2000.
“There are people who believe everything is sane and sensible that is done with a solemn face. ... It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus , one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth ... into a liar that I call an achievement.”
“The end does not justify the means. No one's rights can be secured by the violation of the rights of others.”
“We deserve punishment and get forgiveness; we deserve Godâ€™s wrath and get Godâ€™s love.”
“Father, One day, a woman walked into my life. I hurt her deeply with the harshest words possible. I pushed her away as much as I could. But, she still came back to me. She is so much like me; I look at myself often when I look at her. She has the physical wounds that I have. The tears that fill my brain are flowing through her heart as well. I gave her those wounds. I made her cry. I should not have met her. I should not have allowed her to come into the life of a guy like me. Father, I'm regretting it. This is the first time... that I have ever regretted anything in my life.”

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