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last updated: November 28, 2023

To the as-yet-unborn, to all innocent wisps of undifferentiated nothingness: Watch out for life.
-- Kurt Vonnegut

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How do you stop longing for what you absolutely know you can't get? Which really means: How do you absolutely know you can't-and won't-get it, not ever? How do you pinch out that wisp of feeble, ruthless hope?
-- Leigh Newman

Source : Leigh Newman (2013). “Still Points North: One Alaskan Childhood, One Grown-up World, One Long Journey Home”, p.170, Dial Press

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Everybody born comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory.
-- Maya Angelou

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“From his style, you’d think Jason Brannon was the dark double of Ray Bradbury. He cares more about character and realism than most writers I’ve read and his plots flow like well-orchestrated music. Indeed, Brannon’s writing has a classical feel, reminiscent of the best traditional work in the genre, even when he’s going for gut-wrenching terror and torture in-extremis.”
“When you work with kids, people tell you to be very delicate, but that's the last thing you should do with kids. They feel patronized if you're like that. They just want you to be normal.”
“Marriage, like spinach and opera, was something I had never thought I would like.”
“I had no reason to want to copy anybody else. What I wanted to give audiences for the few minutes that I thought my career would last was something unique.”
“The higher the social class of other students the higher any given student's achievement.”
“I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.”
“I guess this year I'm going to find out if I'm good enough or not. If I'm not, I don't care. I'll do something else, it's not a biggie.”
“If there is a mutual respect between players and coaches, that keeps the team honest and makes for a very healthy environment which in turn promotes other important qualities such as work ethic, integrity and a positive atmosphere for competing and winning.”
“Conformities are called for much more eagerly today than yesterday... skeptics, liberals, individuals with a taste for private life and their own inner standards of behavior, are objects of fear and derision and targets of persecution for either side... in the great ideological wars of our time.”
“The impossible becomes possible when your back is against the wall”