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“There's a fine line between a superpower and a chronic medical condition.”

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This novel delves into the psychological and ethical consequences of a character's unyielding pursuit of power and immortality. more

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Austin Grossman

Austin Grossman is an American writer born on June 26, 1969. Known for his science fiction and fantasy works, Grossman's novels often weave history with reality, creating captivating stories. more

“For my part, I think we need more emotion, not less. But I think, too, that we need to educate people in how to feel. Emotionalism is not the same as emotion. We cannot cut out emotion - in the economy of the human body, it is the limbic, not the neural, highway that takes precedence. We are not robots...but we act as though all our problems would be solved if only we had no emotions to cloud our judgement.”

People Ifs Thinking Needs Feels Humans Problem Body Would Be Emotion Economy Cutting Clouds Judgement Educate Robots Highways Human Body Precedence

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“The key to happiness, she said, is tolerance of those who do not do as you do.' `What if those who do not do as you do are gunning you down?' I said.... Alaska frowned. `Guns are intolerant. Guns are a failure of communication.”

Ifs Said Communication Keys Gun Tolerance What If Alaska Key To Happiness

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“The author should die once he has finished writing. So as not to trouble the path of the text.”

Should Writing Dies Path Trouble Finished

Book:The Name of the Rose

Source: The Name of the Rose

“When the writer (or the artist in general) says he has worked without giving any thought to the rules of the process, he simply means he was working without realizing he knew the rules.”

Giving Writing Mean Artist Process Realizing

Book:The Name of the Rose

Source: The Name of the Rose

“Rem tene, verba sequentur: grasp the subject, and the words will follow. This, I believe, is the opposite of what happens with poetry, which is more a case of verba tene, res sequenter: grasp the words, and the subject will follow.”

Believe Happens I Believe Cases Subjects Opposites This I Believe

Author:Umberto Eco

“In the Middle Ages, cathendrals and convents burned like tinder; imagining a medieval story without a fire is like imagining a World War II movie in the Pacific without a fighter plane shot down in flames.”

World War Stories Age Fire Middle Shots Fighter Planes Flames War Of The Worlds World War Ii Burned Middle Ages Medieval Pacific Tinder Obviousness

Author:Umberto Eco

“What is love? There is nothing in the world, neither man nor Devil nor any thing, that I hold as suspect as love, for it penetrates the soul more than any other thing. Nothing exists that so fills and binds the heart as love does. Therefore, unless you have those weapons that subdue it, the soul plunges through love into an immense abyss.”

Men World Love Heart Doe Soul Weapons Devil Suspects Immense Abyss Penetrate Plunge What Is Love

Book:The Name of the Rose

Source: The Name of the Rose

“The state we find ourselves in is sinful quite independent of guilt.”

States Independent Guilt

Author:Franz Kafka

“I suppose I'll have to add the force of gravity to my list of enemies.”

Humor Force Enemy Add Lists Gravity

Author:Daniel Handler

“big plans require big action”

Bigs Action Plans

Book:He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys

Source: He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys

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