"Where one industry stumbles, another rises up."

-- John Battelle

“A woman who can eat a real bruschetta is a woman you can love and who can love you. Someone who pushes the thing away because it's messy is never going to cackle at you toothlessly across the living room of your retirement cottage or drag you back from your sixth heart attack by sheer furious affection. Never happen. You need a woman who isn't afraid of a faceful of olive oil for that.”

Source : Nick Harkaway (2008). “The Gone-Away World”, p.181, Random House
“Writers of fiction, when they begin, are more likely to try the short form”
“If you are a troublemakerâ€¦itâ€™s our job to politically destroy you. Put it this way. As long as JB Jeyaretnam stands for what he stands for â€“ a thoroughly destructive force â€“ we will knock him. Everybody knows that in my bag I have a hatchet, and a very sharp one. You take me on, I take my hatchet, we meet in the cul-de-sac.”
“It seemed pathetic and terrible to me and it still does, that men and women work eight hours a day at jobs that bring them no joy, no reward save a few dollars.”
“I can't write. I would love to. I don't really have an interest in it, to be honest. I'll leave that to my fiance.”
“I got frustrated with films like "Armageddon" and "Deep Impact," where the only answer to deal with a Near-Earth Object is basically Bruce Willis with a big drill.”
“I am an old man, but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be, young, young all your life.”
“I like the idea that we build up these walls or rules or laws to maintain our reality, and when they fall away, you're left with a whole bunch of illusions.”

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