Edward M. Lerner Quotes

History buffs expect historical background in historical fiction. Mystery readers expect forensics and police procedure in crime fiction. Westerns - gasp - describe the West. Techno-thriller readers expect to learn something about technology from their fiction.

Edward M. Lerner

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In most mills, only the best portions of the best trees are used, while the ruins are left on the ground to feed great fires which kill much of what is left of the less desirable timber, together with the seedlings on which the permanence of the forest depends.

John Muir

GreatBestTogetherTreesForest

When a bully pulls your hair, you punch him in the face.

Max Holloway

HairFaceYouHimPunchYour

Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo - obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other.

Angela Davis

DangerousZooHumanBreakPopulation

I'm not really interested in music. Music is just a means of creating a magical state.

Robert Fripp

MusicCreatingMagicalJustMeans

I only want three children for every family. I'm a Christian, but I'm a realist, so we have to do something with our overpopulation. I will defy the opinion or the belief of the Church.

Rodrigo Duterte

FamilyChildrenOpinionChurchThree

My son craves picture books about Transformers and Ninja Turtles and the Hulk; they show one fantastic creature smashing or zapping another into smithereens on page after page. They are dull and ugly and show no interesting stories or models of conflict resolution or character building.

Russell Smith

SonCharacterUglyConflictBuilding

My family very much adored me, and at school, I was an object of fascination.

Ruth Negga

FamilySchoolMeMuchObjectVery

You only find what you are looking for, really, if the truth be known.

Mary Leakey

TruthLookingYouFindOnlyKnown

Save the stonewall to build the levees.

Lloyd Doggett

BuildSaveLevees

When I start playing I'm just a rollercoaster of sound. I don't know what's coming next, I never do, and I sit and sign and talk to the people afterwards.

Dick Dale

PeopleStartKnowTalkNeverSound

Just as human activity is upsetting Earth's carbon cycle, our actions are altering the water cycle.

David Suzuki

WaterEarthHumanCycleActivity

If you are writing comedy and try to please everybody, you'll please nobody.

Brendan O'Carroll

WritingComedyYouNobodyTry

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