"As my mother once said: The boys throw stones at the frog in jest. But the frogs die in earnest."

-- Joanna Russ

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“The whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out people who are too independent, and who think for themselves, and who don't know how to be submissive, and so on -- because they're dysfunctional to the institutions.”
“True affection and love have a purity which shall always prevail over bigotry.”
“I know it's not easy for you, living this life, but try to remember, always try to remember, you're not the only one with troubles.”

Source : Laini Taylor (2011). “Daughter of Smoke and Bone: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.51, Hachette UK
“In down times I do things like go for a long bike ride or run. The other thing I'm doing in that quiet time is just observing.”
“No one understands another's grief, no one understands another's joy... My music is the product of my talent and my misery. And that which I have written in my greatest distress is what the world seems to like best.”
“It might be argued that genuine spontaneity is not really possible or desirable so long as printed scores of great works exist. All modern musicians are, for better or worse, prisoners of Gutenberg.”

Source : "Music View; Whatever Happened To Spontaneity In Performance?" by Donal Henahan, www.nytimes.com. May 13, 1984.
“We cannot experimentally map out the brain. Its just too big. In a piece of the brain the size of a pinhead there are 3,000 pathways like a city with 3,000 streets.”
“If truth is the lure, humans are fishes.”

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