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last updated: November 28, 2023

A big book is a big misfortune.
-- Callimachus

Source : Fragment 465; translation by A. W. Bulloch, in P. E. Easterling and B. M. W. Knox (eds.) "The Cambridge History of Classical Literature" (1989) vol. 1, part 4, p. 30,

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I'd never have written the big books in London.
-- Jilly Cooper

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I have learned to do more with less, so you don't see the big books anymore.
-- Terry Brooks

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“Ambition is a devouring fire, who can poise it? It is a wind, who can fathom it? It is an abyss, who is able to recount the sources and issues thereof?”
“And all that is therein; Invisible and visible, Their notes let all things blend, For Christ the Lord is risen. Our joy that hath no end.”
“Civilization tries to persuade us we are going towards something, a distant goal. We have forgotten that our only goal is to live, to live each and every day, and that if we live each and every day, our true goal is achieved.”
“May I take your vein for a moment? I find myself... curiously depleted" Okay, right. Talk about your Johnny-on-the-spots: He locked them in and all but tore off his arm and threw it at her.”
“You can get totally messed up trying to please everyone with what you do, but ultimately, you have to please yourself.”
“Ultimately, we actually all belong to only one tribe, to Earthlings.”

Source : "Are We Alone In The Universe?". "TED Radio Hour" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. February 15, 2013.
“I am not the law, but I represent justice so far as my feeble powers go.”
“Considering you are pretty much like this the whole time whether you're onstage, whether you're in the van, whether you're eating, whether you're in the hotel room. So everyone has their moments and you kind of learn to respect people's space when they're not in a good mood.”
“My whole deal when I do accents or dialects is I gotta fool the locals. If I fool the locals then I've done my job.”
“Purity of action guided Janis's behavior. If she was going to be good, she was very, very good. If she was going to be bad, she let all the stops out. Anything less than full commitment to an idea of activity was 'hypocritical', the worst adjective anyone could hurl at another.”