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George Eliot
“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

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

Robert Bringhurst
“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

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

Marvin Minsky
“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

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