The difference between Socrates and Jesus is that no one had ever been put to death in Socrates' name. And that is because Socrates' ideas were never made law. Law, in whatever name, protects privilege.


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Why does he have such an unnerving effect on me? His over-whelming good looks maybe? The way his eye...
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I shrug, trapped. I don’t want to lose him. In spite of all his demands, his need to control, his ...
E.L. JAMES
The girl clones at Singer Grove were just like the ones in Texas; they knocked themselves out to be ...
E.L. KONIGSBURG
Had she been born 500 years sooner, Raphael would have chosen her as a model for his cherubs. Tendri...
E.L. KONIGSBURG
I love you and all your kinky fuckery
E.L. JAMES
Because we are human we have a long childhood, and one of the jobs of that childhood is to sculpt ou...
E.L. KONIGSBURG
I flush,and my inner goddess grabs a rose between her teeth and starts to tango.
E.L. JAMES
He does, and his eyes shoot to mine, wide and gray, alive with wonder and joy. His lip part in disbe...
E.L. JAMES
The way I see it, the difference between farmers and suburbanites is the difference in the way we fe...
E.L. KONIGSBURG
His magic is powerful, intoxicating. I'm a butterfly caught in his net, unable and unwilling to esca...
E.L. JAMES
And in this quiet moment, as I close my eyes, spent and sated, I think I'm in the eye of the storm. ...
E.L. JAMES
Love is for fools, Christian.
E.L. JAMES
If you stare at someone long enough, they'll eventually look back at you.
CORY DOCTOROW
He had them as spellbound as a room full of Ewoks listening to C-3PO.
CORY DOCTOROW
This is why I loved technology: if you used it right, it could give you power and privacy.
CORY DOCTOROW
my problem isn’t piracy, it’s obscurity
CORY DOCTOROW
It's hard not to like Asimov; he's a really likable guy.
CORY DOCTOROW
The other one I did was 'I, Robot.' I take apart Isaac Asimov's Robots world.
CORY DOCTOROW
Never underestimate the determination of a kid who is time-rich and cash-poor.
CORY DOCTOROW
Put simply, I want to treat my readers as partners and not crooks. There is no future in calling you...
CORY DOCTOROW
No one should do a job he can do in his sleep.
CORY DOCTOROW
It's not necessarily about what career you pick. It's about how you do what you do.
CORY DOCTOROW
Never underestimate the determination of a kid who is time rich and cash poor.
CORY DOCTOROW
Abnormal is so common, it's practically normal.
CORY DOCTOROW
Engineers are all basically high-functioning autistics who have no idea how normal people do stuff.
CORY DOCTOROW
All secrets are deep. All secrets become dark. That's in the nature of secrets.
CORY DOCTOROW
It's a story of little girls who are pressed into working in sweat shops in games, who spend all...
CORY DOCTOROW
This seemed insanely limiting. So ... Yahoo tells me to deliberately keep a large number of users fr...
CORY DOCTOROW
The EU and the world are experiencing a revolution in creativity thanks to the Internet, ... An enti...
CORY DOCTOROW
Finally, in the short term it's really obvious. People need to hear about my book, and if they've fo...
CORY DOCTOROW
[Has it been a success though, I ask.] I don't know, ... I don't have another first novel that wasn'...
CORY DOCTOROW
is it any different to loaning a book to someone? There was a book in the US ( Secrets of the Ya Ya ...
CORY DOCTOROW
There are people already sharing eBooks out there, ... and they do it simply because they love books...
CORY DOCTOROW
Previously, such jottings might have been kept in the author's notebook but something amazing happen...
CORY DOCTOROW
This is a fascinating phenomenon that evolved through the unexpected use of technology. It classical...
CORY DOCTOROW
DRM is already widely deployed without a hint of success and the NAVSHP group has the opportunity to...
CORY DOCTOROW
– Here, take this. It'll give you a boost.
– You spent 90 gold on this??
– 90 gold...
CORY DOCTOROW
YA doesn't get librarians fired!
CORY DOCTOROW
Every good thing comes to some kind of end, and then the really good things come to a beginning agai...
CORY DOCTOROW
Funny, for all surveillance, Osama bin Laden is still free—and we're not. Guess who's winning the "...
CORY DOCTOROW
Blooks differ from books in several ways
CORY DOCTOROW
If I am going to be a writer, earning a living in the era of digital text, I need to understand wher...
CORY DOCTOROW
There are answers that cover the short, medium and long term. Everyone needs to realise that the thi...
CORY DOCTOROW
Blogs encourage their authors to publish in small, partially formed chunks,
CORY DOCTOROW
But this is just the start of something much bigger.
CORY DOCTOROW
What little empirical evidence is out there points to eBooks and free downloading increases sales on...
CORY DOCTOROW
What petulant jerks. Look, Sony, you got caught sleazing your customers' computers. Telling us that ...
CORY DOCTOROW
It does the thing that all great non-fiction needs to do — makes a subject interesting because of ...
CORY DOCTOROW
And it is promotion. My publisher, Tor Books, have some modern methods that allow them to make a pro...
CORY DOCTOROW
if I want to enable my readers push copies to their friends, and they're in circles like Slashdot, W...
CORY DOCTOROW
[What is the new is the creative process involved in producing a blook.] Blogs encourage their autho...
CORY DOCTOROW