"It's a bit scary to see my book come true: the recent (if minor) LA earthquakes, Hurricane Sandy, the Boston bomber, and so on - much of it stoppable, I think, and yet I, too, am also guilty of passivity."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

Edan Lepucki

#Book Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Boston Quotes

“Political power does not rest with those who cast votes; political power rests with those who count votes.”
“War taught me that not everything is glamorous.”
“Healthful whole foods improve our brain function as well.”
“Like me or not, I am the only one who has won the world's three most important leagues. So, maybe instead of the 'Special One', people should start calling me the 'Only One'.”
“Imagination might be scarier than reality ... but not by much.”
“If time travel is possible, where are the tourists from the future?”
“Our little solos are a note in an immense chorus vibrating grandly through the universe, a chorus which accepts and harmonizes the whir of the cricket and the long drum-roll of the stars.”

Source : Harriet Monroe (1938). “A poet's life: seventy years in a changing world”, Macmillan
“But initially when I was working with my dad, it was in special effects puppets with radio control and motors and puppet effects.”

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