"Insect life was so loud that when you parked the car and got out it sounded as if you had suddenly tuned into a radio frequency from another planet."

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Source : "The Pink Panthers" by David Samuels, www.newyorker.com. April 12, 2010.

David Samuels

#Car Quotes #Radio Quotes #Loud Quotes

“I don't want to say I'd wipe everybody out, because that's cocky. But they wouldn't beat me.”
“Hearts set about finding other hearts the moment they are born, and between them, they weave nets so frightfully strong and tight that you end up bound forever in hopeless knots, even to the shadow of a beast you knew and loved long ago.”

Source : Catherynne M. Valente (2012). “The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There”, p.85, Macmillan
“Bad schools, crime, drugs, high taxes, the social security mess, racism, the health care ? crisis? unemployment, welfare state dependency, illegitimacy, the gap between rich and poor. What do these issues have in common? Politicians, the media, and our so-called leaders lie to us about them. They lie about the cause. They lie about the effect. They lie about the solutions.”

Source : Larry Elder (2001). “The Ten Things You Can't Say In America”, p.7, St. Martin's Griffin
“To live another person's life is quite a weird thing.”
“Are you still to learn that the end and perfection of our victories is to avoid the vices and infirmities of those whom we subdue?”

Source : "Lives". Book by Plutarch translated by Arthur Hugh Clough and John Dryden, 1942.
“Oh, talking is not so bad as that," said the Jester. "True, most people say only silly things when they speak. But it's easier to ignore them if you're saying silly things yourself.”

Source : Pseudonymous Bosch (2012). “If You're Reading This, It's Too Late: The Secret Series”, p.98, Usborne Publishing Ltd
“I think that's one of the reasons people love The X-Files, because most people do believe that there's something else going on that we don't know, because life is just too bizarre to be the way it is.”

Source : "With Rhetoric On Immigrants, Trump Risks Teeing Off Golf Industry" by Steve Holland, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 8, 2015.
“The balance between freedom and security is a delicate one.”

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