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Ken MacLeod photo

““Anyway… I find what you write interesting.”
“That’s what people usually say when they disagree with it.””

Ken MacLeod book Learning the World

Source: Learning the World (2005), Chapter 7 “Television” (p. 110)

Helen Rowland photo

“A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.”

Helen Rowland (1875–1950) American journalist

Second Marriages
A Guide to Men (1922)

Katharine Hepburn photo

“If you obey all of the rules, you miss all of the fun.”

Katharine Hepburn (1907–2003) film, stage, and television actress

Variant: If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun

Elizabeth Barrett Browning photo

“I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life! —and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.”

Elizabeth Barrett Browning book Sonnets from the Portuguese

No. LXIII
Sonnets from the Portuguese (1850)
Context: How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.
I love thee to the level of everyday's
Most quiet need, by sun and candlelight.
I love thee freely, as men strive for Right;
I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise.
I love thee with the passion put to use
In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith.
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints,—I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life! —and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.

Kinky Friedman photo
Margaret Atwood photo
Katharine Hepburn photo
Pearl S.  Buck photo
Roald Dahl photo

“Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”

Roald Dahl (1916–1990) British novelist, short story writer, poet, fighter pilot and screenwriter

Benjamin Franklin photo

“Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise. ”

Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) American author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, …

Arthur Conan Doyle photo

“You are my heart, my life, my one and only thought.”

Arthur Conan Doyle book The White Company

The White Company (1891)

Nicholas Sparks photo