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“The human being is the only animal that thinks about the future.”
― Daniel Gilbert, Stumbling on Happiness: An insightful neuroscience self-help psychology book on cognitive enhancement and human behavior

“Later! What an astonishing idea. What a powerful concept. What a fabulous discovery.”
― Daniel Gilbert, Stumbling on Happiness: An insightful neuroscience self-help psychology book on cognitive enhancement and human behavior

“As the black of night transformed into the distinct deep blue of morning twilight, Trevor traded the well-worn accoutrements of a humble adult life for the highly specialized gear of a weekend warrior, giddily exchanging the daily grind for the enthrallment of the almighty Saturday.  Almost enough to make a grown man weep in gratitude.”
― Justine Avery, The End: A Novelette of Haunting Omens & Harrowing Discovery

“In a technologically advanced world, if it wasn't filmed, it didn't happen.”
― Justine Avery, The End: A Novelette of Haunting Omens & Harrowing Discovery

“When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures bristling with prejudice and motivated by pride and vanity.”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends & Influence People

“Far from being this big, booming voice, the Daily Mail is just a little man behind a curtain.”
― Steve Coogan, Easily Distracted: My Autobiography

“If we don’t change the direction           we’re going, we’re likely to          end up where we’re headed.                       Ancient Chinese proverb”
― Stacey Hall, Attracting Perfect Customers: The Power of Strategic Synchronicity

“Find where the sound ends and silence begins. Then exist in that moment, for there will you find your secret centre of being, the perfect place of peace within yourself.”
― Raymond E. Feist, The Complete Riftwar Saga Trilogy: Magician, Silverthorn, A Darkness at Sethanon

“Norwich isn’t the north or the south; there’s a kind of otherness to it. It doesn’t have an overwhelming sense of itself, like, say, Yorkshire or Cornwall does.”
― Steve Coogan, Easily Distracted: My Autobiography

“carry on killing monsters in the ruins of this world until some monster kills me. That is my fate, my reason, my life and my attitude to the world. And it is not what I chose. It was chosen for me.”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, Blood of Elves

“Turn your face to the sun, as flowers know how to do.”
― Ming-Dao Deng, 365 Tao: Daily Meditations

“Give a man a car of his own and he leaves humility and common sense behind him in the garage.”
― John le Carré, Call for the Dead

“Within twenty-four hours after man's most memorable and monumental encounter with an alien species, Nathan deduced that he must've imagined it—because the Internet said so.”
― Justine Avery, Earth Inherited: A Short Tale of Planetary Plague & Astronomical Affliction

“Nationwide, every member of the waning audience for live morning news programming promptly affixed themselves to their preferred online social networks, wrongfully assuming to be the first to share their witty reports and captured clips of the hilarious fumbling of their local television and radio newscasters.”
― Justine Avery, Earth Inherited: A Short Tale of Planetary Plague & Astronomical Affliction

“There is no ‘time,’ only the infinite now.”
― Justine Avery, The One Apart