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If you're a thinking person, the liver is interesting, but nothing is more intriguing than the brain.


Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

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S. I. HAYAKAWA When I was in high school, the genders were so separate from each other. If you weren't 'dat...
S. E. HINTON The thing is, the Tulsa experience that I wrote about in 'The Outsiders' is closer to the un...
S. E. HINTON Sometimes, I feel like I spent the first part of my life wishing to be a teen-age boy, and the secon...
S. E. HINTON I like having a private name and a public name. It helps keep things straight.
S. E. HINTON Since I am first of all a character writer, that character's emotions are as vivid to me as my o...
S. E. HINTON I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him.
S. E. HINTON I have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings, stretch my imagina...
S. E. HINTON How a piece ends is very important to me. It's the last chance to leave an impression with the r...
S. E. HINTON More people thought I was strange because I was a teenage novelist, not because I was from Oklahoma....
S. E. HINTON My husband and I get along great. We're both introverts, and it's hard to make new friends.
S. E. HINTON I was a tomboy and most of my close friends were male.
S. E. HINTON I grew up here and my friends are here. There's nothing wrong with here.
S. E. HINTON If you enjoy reading something, read it.
S. E. HINTON Anything you read can influence your work, so I try to read good stuff.
S. E. HINTON If people want to find me, they can. They'll see a middle-aged woman wandering around the grocer...
S. E. HINTON My mother was physically and emotionally abusive. My father was an extremely cold man.
S. E. HINTON My goal from being a child was to have a happy home life.
S. E. HINTON Any writer who gives a reader a pleasurable experience is doing every other writer a favor because i...
S. E. HINTON My characters are fictional. I get ideas from real people, sometimes, but my characters always exist...
S. E. HINTON I think that 'The Outsiders' was meant to be written, and I was just picked to write it.
S. E. HINTON Movies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies.
S. E. HINTON I was a 'young adult' when I wrote 'The Outsiders,' although it was not a genre at t...
S. E. HINTON When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two thi...
S. E. HINTON 'The Outsiders' died on the vine being sold as a drugstore paperback.
S. E. HINTON You want to know why there's a Texas Rangers? Well, here's the answer. You know how the six-...
S. C. GWYNNE This is who I am: a flyspeck of human vanity in a trillion miles of stone-dead interstellar space; a...
S. C. GWYNNE When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.
HARRY S TRUMAN The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only...
PEARL S. BUCK We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
W. S. MERWIN Now all my teachers are dead except silence.
W. S. MERWIN Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the wh...
W. S. MERWIN I have nothing to do with opinions. I deal only with armed rebellion and its aiders and abettors.
ULYSSES S. GRANT I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execu...
ULYSSES S. GRANT I would suggest the taxation of all property equally, whether church or corporation, exempting only ...
ULYSSES S. GRANT If men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail.
ULYSSES S. GRANT I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer.
ULYSSES S. GRANT No other terms than unconditional and immediate surrender. I propose to move immediately upon your w...
ULYSSES S. GRANT Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.
ULYSSES S. GRANT Declare Church and State forever separate and distinct, but each free within their proper spheres, a...
ULYSSES S. GRANT