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“If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

“A man who would letterspace lower case would steal sheep, Frederic Goudy liked to say. If this wisdom needs updating, it is chiefly to add that a woman who would letterspace lower case would steal sheep as well .”
― Robert Bringhurst

“The obligation to endure gives us the right to know.”
― Jean Rostand

“General fiction is pretty much about ways that people get into problems and screw their lives up. Science fiction is about everything else.”
― Marvin Minsky

“He can kill anything for need but he could not even hurt a feeling for pleasure.”
― John Steinbeck, Cannery Row

“God himself culminates in the present moment, and will never be more divine in the lapse of all the ages.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

“We suffered for our art. You have to suffer for our art as well!”
― Terry Gilliam

“Good art is not universal. Bruce Willis is universal.”
― Sherman Alexie

“Man is an animal whose dreams come true and kill him.”
― James Tiptree Jr., Her Smoke Rose Up Forever