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		I feel that whatever virtues the novel may have are very much connected with the limitations you mention. I am not writing a conventional novel, and I think that the quality of the novel I write will derive precisely from the peculiarity or aloneness, if you will, of the experience I write from.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Flannery O'Connor 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		Can you imagine being Leonardo Da Vinci in the 1400s trying to describe his ideas for machines that would allow humans to fly to the average person of his time? This is hundreds of years before the invention of electricity, the internal combustion engine, and many other things we take for granted today. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Fabrizio Moreira 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Never have I found the limits of the photographic potential. Every horizon, upon being reached, reveals another beckoning in the distance. Always, I am on the threshold. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				W. Eugene Smith 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Perhaps if we all subscribed to the African concept of Ubuntu - that we all become people through other people, and that we cannot be fully human alone, we could learn a lot. There'd be less hatred and more harmony. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Queen Rania of Jordan 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I like hip-hop, but I don't like concerts. There's, like, sweat on people's backs. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				T. J. Miller 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Nearly half of the American population is eagerly anticipating the end of the world. This dewy-eyed nihilism provides absolutely no incentive to build a sustainable civilization. Many of these people are lunatics, but they are not the lunatic fringe. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Sam Harris 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Isaac Bashevis Singer 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		After I win a match, I celebrate it by having an ice cream. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Saina Nehwal 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Unless and until you inspire the people, you will not get results. Imposition will never give you the results. Inspiration will always give you the results. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Narendra Modi 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		A phoenix, Beirut seems to always pull itself out its ashes, reinvents itself, has been conquered numerous times in its 7,000-year history, yet it survives by both becoming whatever its conquerors wished it to be and retaining its idiosyncratic persona. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Rabih Alameddine 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Those of us raised in modern cities tend to notice horizontal and vertical lines more quickly than lines at other orientations. In contrast, people raised in nomadic tribes do a better job noticing lines skewed at intermediate angles, since Mother Nature tends to work with a wider array of lines than most architects. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Sam Kean 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I go to all these photo shoots, and each time I figure out something new about myself and what I want to wear. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Taylor Swift 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		R. Kelly is a thing on TV, but nobody knows Robert and what he's been through. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				R. Kelly