"That's the marvellous thing about seasteads; if a government fails, there's nothing much the people who live there can do about it. But if seasteads fail, they simply disassemble and go away."

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Joe Quirk

#Government Quotes #People Quotes #Going Away Quotes

“Tenderness can be just as abstract as insanity.”
“Wedlock's a lane where there is no turning.”
“99% of fund managers demonstrate no evidence of skill whatsoever.”
“If you treat your employees like mushrooms (keep them in the dark and regularly throw crap on them), it's entirely likely you will get precisely the work you deserve in return.”
“He had not breathed a word of love, or dropped one hint of tenderness or affection, and yet I had been supremely happy. To be near him, to hear him talk as he did talk, and to feel that he thought me worthy to be so spoken to - capable of understanding and duly appreciating such discourse - was enough.”
“I would've never done a 1970's road movie. It just wouldn't have occurred to me. So when he started talking about it he brought up all these movies and he'll do that with you guys and you'll feel the Goosebumps as you start realizing the story that he wanted to tell.”
“Unimaginable perhaps; but the unimaginable is there to be imagined.”
“Once, I discovered the skulls of two impala rams, their horns locked into an irreversible figure-of-eight; the two animals had been trapped in combat, latched to each other during the battle of the rut. The harder they had pulled to escape from each other, the more intractably stuck they were, until they had fallen exhausted, to their knees, in an embrace of hatred that had killed them both.”

Source : Alexandra Fuller (2002). “Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood”, p.191, Random House

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