"Thirty years ago, the Pandora's box of the Internet wasn't yet a fact of life, and celebrities inhabited a more remote, hard-to-reach plane."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

Christine Sneed

#Years Quotes #Pandora's Box Quotes #Facts Quotes

“Why did I follow her? If you must know, Sir, it was easy. Pound for pound, Puss-in-Boots was the best commander I ever served under.”

Source : L. A. Meyer (2007). “Under the Jolly Roger: Being an Account of the Further Nautical Adventures of Jacky Faber”, p.308, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“If sacred places are spared the ravages of war... then make all places sacred. And if the holy people are to be kept harmless from war... then make all people holy.”
“Do you know what I am going to tell you, he said with his wry mouth, a pint of plain is your only man. Notwithstanding this eulogy, I soon found that the mass of plain porter bears an unsatisfactory relation to its toxic content and I subsequently became addicted to brown stout in bottle, a drink which still remains the one that I prefer the most despite the painful and blinding fits of vomiting which a plurality of bottles has often induced in me.”
“My love for traveling to islands amounts to a pathological condition known as nesomania, an obsession with islands. This craze seems reasonable to me, because islands are small self-contained worlds that can help us understand larger ones.”
“Is this a fit time, said my father to himself, to talk of Pensions and Grenadiers?”
“As time goes on, new and remoter aspects of truth are discovered which can seldom be fitted into creeds that are changeless.”

Source : Clarence Day, Jr. (2004). “This Simian World”, p.66, 1st World Publishing
“Can you see me? All of me? Probably not. No one ever really has.”

Source : Jeffrey Eugenides (2003). “Middlesex”, p.218, A&C Black
“I think it's a problem when journalists have the title of their article before they do the interview, because it biases the way they conduct it.”

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