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  • #1
    Gabriel F.W. Koch
    “Truthfully, Professor Hawking? Why would we allow tourists from the future muck up the past when your contemporaries had the task well in Hand?"
    Brigadier General Patrick E Buckwalder 2241C.E.”
    Gabriel F.W. Koch, Paradox Effect: Time Travel and Purified DNA Merge to Halt the Collapse of Human Existence

  • #2
    “The written word
    Like a stone pillar
    May last for centuries
    Even if its meaning is forgotten.”
    Jack Borden

  • #3
    Sara Pascoe
    “Like water around rocks, people streamed around them as though this sort of interaction, noisy and involving foreigners, was nothing unusual.”
    Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

  • #4
    A.R. Merrydew
    “We might even make this after all,’ he hollered, but the craft didn’t reply.”
    A.R. Merrydew, Inara

  • #5
    Hanna  Hasl-Kelchner
    “Real leadership is treating your least favorite employee the same as your favorite”
    Hanna Hasl-Kelchner, Seeking Fairness at Work: Cracking the New Code of Greater Employee Engagement, Retention & Satisfaction

  • #6
    Lesley Glaister
    “Neville's a pleasant sort of standby when there's nothing more exciting on the go. A safe, attractive, reliable chap. He's respectful, never having tried to get her into bed which, if she was a better sort of person, she might appreciate.”
    Lesley Glaister, A Particular Man

  • #7
    Charles Dickens
    “There are very few moments in a man's existence when he experiences so much ludicrous distress, or meets with so little charitable commiseration, as when he is in pursuit of his own hat.”
    Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers

  • #8
    Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
    “It seems to me that the earth may be borrowed but not bought. It may be used, but not owned. ... We are tenants and not possessors, lovers and not masters.”
    Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

  • #9
    Aravind Adiga
    “These are the three main diseases of this country, sir: typhoid, cholera, and election fever. This last one is the worst; it makes people talk and talk about things that they have no say in. - Balram Halwai”
    Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger

  • #10
    Michael Cunningham
    “The world is full of Guses--good-looking boys and girls who've been dealt the best possible genetic hand by parents and grandparents and great-grandparents who have been doing neither well nor badly for generations; who engender these decent kids and give them just enough to survive in the world but no more--no spectacular beauty, no uncontainable brilliance, no kingly, unstoppable ambition.

    Isn't it the task of art to acclaim these people, to ennoble them? Consider Olympia. A girl of the streets becomes a deity.”
    Michael Cunningham, By Nightfall

  • #11
    Stieg Larsson
    “...you have no idea how mentally handicapped I could be if push comes to shove.”
    Stieg Larsson, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

  • #12
    Margarita Barresi
    “Isa rolled her eyes. “Are you serious? You’re the only person I know who’d get upset that the FBI’s not watching him.”
    Margarita Barresi, A Delicate Marriage

  • #13
    Gabriel F.W. Koch
    “Her growing possessiveness felt both good and bad.”
    Gabriel F.W. Koch, Death Leaves a Shadow

  • #14
    Kenneth Schmitt
    “When we hold health and abundance in our self-identity, we create experiences of that quality. If we choose to be attuned to the energy of our heart and feel love and compassion, we create experiences in the same energy spectrum as that of peace, love and joy.”
    Kenneth Schmitt, Quantum Energetics and Spirituality Volume 1: Aligning with Universal Consciousness

  • #15
    Sara Pascoe
    “I really like Matilda and that's not a clever book, is it? It's for children. But she's my favourite main character because she comes from an awful family and likes reading, like I do. Those special powers must've made her life a lot easier, though. She wouldn't be working in a pub at thirty-two.”
    Sara Pascoe, Weirdo

  • #16
    Hugo Woolley
    “What do you mean, a goddess?” Alec questioned irritably.
    “She’s staggeringly beautiful, wonderful, a vision of …” He petered out when he saw Alec looking at him strangely. Father Joe stroked his beard in thought, nervously eyeing Alec and then casting his eyes to the fireplace. Alec was beginning to sense Father Joe was regretting coming to his flat. He was also thinking that he regretted having anything to do with the vicar. He was quite mad … possibly.”
    Hugo Woolley, The Wasp Trap

  • #17
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    “In America religion is the road to knowledge, and the observance of the divine laws leads man to civil freedom.”
    Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

  • #18
    Alan Weisman
    “We may be undermined by our survival instincts, honed over eons to help us deny, defy, or ignore catastrophic portents lest they paralyze us with fright.”
    Alan Weisman, The World Without Us

  • #19
    Richard Dawkins
    “I believe that an orderly universe, one indifferent to human preoccupations, in which everything has an expla nation even if we still have a long way to go before we find it, is a more beautiful, more wonderful place than a universe tricked out with capricious, ad hoc magic.”
    Richard Dawkins, Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder

  • #20
    Homer
    “Generations of men are like the leaves.
    In winter, winds blow them down to earth,
    but then, when spring season comes again,
    the budding wood grows more. And so with men:
    one generation grows, another dies away.”
    Homeros, The Iliad
    tags: death

  • #21
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “Quand tu regarderas le ciel, la nuit, puisque j'habiterai dans l'une d'elles, puisque je rirais dans l'une d'elles, alors ce sera pour toi comme si riaient tous les etoiles. Tu auras toi, les etoiles qui savent rire.”
    Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  • #22
    James   McBride
    “It sat proudly atop the hill behind wrought-iron gates, with smooth lawns, tennis courts, and shiny classroom buildings, a monstrous bastion of arrogant elegance, glowing like a phoenix above the ramshackle neighborhood of Chicken Hill.”
    James McBride, The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store



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