"In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man will poke out his eye to fit in."

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Source : Joan D. Vinge (2002). “Catspaw”, p.82, Macmillan

CaitlÃn R. Kiernan

#Eye Quotes #Men Quotes #Land Quotes

“To be truly elegant one should not be noticed”
“You feel pretty gross when you are first pregnant. You don't feel cute, you feel disgusting. You're getting fat. It was hard.”
“Because I have a passion for the play. My father was a chess teacher, and I learned the play of him as a small child. Occasionally I made another career; but now I have again the possibility of maintaining the passion of my early youth days.”
“A bad salesman will automatically drop his price. Bad salesmen make me sick.”
“England, where nobody ever says what they mean: and by denying feeling, kill it off stone-cold at the roots ...”
“I mean, there is a certain element that, when you read the bad press about yourself and post it on the web-site, takes the pressure off.”

Source : OndaRock Interview, June 01, 2006.
“The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.”
“I am a child of the poisonous wind that copulated with the East River on an oil-slick, garbage infested midnight. I turn about on my own parentage. I inoculate against those very biles that brought me to light. I am a serum born of venoms. I am the antibody of all Time. I am the Cure. You do of the City, do you not? Manhattan is your punisher, let me be you shield.”

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