"The City. Can't you hear it? People. Machines. Even thoughts so thick your bones feel it and your ear almost catches it."

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Barry Eisler

#Cities Quotes #People Quotes #Machines Quotes

“Nearly every country in the world is now becoming industrialized as rapidly as it can.”
“I finally made up my mind that I would neither disclaim the black race nor claim the white race; but that I would change my name, raise a mustache, and let the world take me for what it would; that it was not necessary for me to go about with a label of inferiority pasted across my forehead.”
“I am inclined to think that one's education has been in vain if one fails to learn that most schoolmasters are idiots.”

Source : Hesketh Pearson (1965). “Hesketh Pearson by Himself. (1. Ed.)”, London : Heinemann
“The magic to a great meeting is all of the work that's done beforehand.”
“Arrested Development was such an amazing experience in every way, and you know it was very unique in that it was a show that received a lot of critical acclaim, and yet we didn't ever achieve the ratings that we wanted.”
“Looking, Walking, Being, I look and look. Looking's a way of being: one becomes, sometimes, a pair of eyes walking. Walking wherever looking takes one. The eyes dig and burrow into the world. They touch, fanfare, howl, madrigal, clamor. World and the past of it, not only visible present, solid and shadow that looks at one looking. And language? Rhythms of echo and interruption? That's a way of breathing. breathing to sustain looking, walking and looking, through the world, in it.”
“Restaurant Man is kind of the story, an unabridged story of what happened in my life, the good bad and ugly. Some people might glean some life lessons. It is honest, not written as a press release.”
“I'm going to dance in all the galaxies.”

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