"Rice Krispies happens to be one of my favorite junk foods, just as I regard Michener as superior among junk writers."

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Source : International Herald Tribune, August 08, 1978.

Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

#Junk Quotes #My Favorite Quotes #Junk Food Quotes

“The poetâ€™s life is just so much crenellated waste, nights and days whipping swiftly or laboriously past the cinematic window. Weâ€™re hunched and weaving over the keys of our green our grey or pink blue manual typewriter maybe a darker stone cold thoritative selectric with its orgasmic expectant hum and us popping pills and laughing over what you or I just wrote, wondering if that line means insult or sex. Or both. Usually both.”
“Abstract systems depend on trust, yet they provide none of the moral rewards which can be obtained from personalised trust, or were often available in traditional settings from the moral frameworks within which everyday life was undertaken. Moreover, the wholesale penetration of abstract systems into daily life creates risks which the individual is not well placed to confront; high-consequence risks fall into this category. Greater interdependence, up to and including globally independent systems, means greater vulnerability when untoward events occur that affect those systems as a whole.”

Source : Anthony Giddens (2013). “Modernity and Self-Identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age”, p.140, John Wiley & Sons
“I prefer to give a dollar to a thousand people.”

Source : Source: www.raintaxi.com
“The rights of copyright holders need to be protected, but some draconian remedies that have been suggested would create more problems than they would solve.”
“I don't know whether the world is full of smart men bluffing or imbeciles who mean it.”
“We expect that 25 years from now, the use of racial preferences will no longer be necessary to further the interest approved today.”
“You walk through a series of arches, so to speak, and then, presently, at the end of a corridor, a door opens and you see backward through time, and you feel the flow of time, and realize you are only part of a great nameless procession.”
“No dog can go as fast as the money you bet on him.”

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