"In this age of getting what you want and getting it now, the simple pleasure of browsing is often forgotten."

-- Tom Hodgkinson

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“I wish sometimes that the gods would either choose better, or make their wishes clearer”
“Getting into a new relationship is like pouring Miracle-Gro on your character defects.”
“We... heal ourselves by giving others what we most need.”
“fear has always been a diminisher of life. Whether bred in the bogs of superstition or clothed in the brocades of dogma and ritual, the specter of death has reduced the living to supplicants, powerless.”
“I also learned to play Fruit Ninja on an iPad. It is quite hypnotic, and I hope one day to get past 100 points. I remembered that David Cameron admits to being an addict. I wonder if it helps him in his work. 'Great, just destroyed a pineapple! Reminds me, shall we send those grenades to the Syrian rebels?'”

Source : "Simon Hoggart's week: the new Christmas traditions" by Simon Hoggart, www.theguardian.com. December 28, 2012.
“Nature eventually has her own way, so perhaps the best procedure is to accept what old Mother Nature or God, if you will, dictates. Accept it and you'll get along better.”
“The thing that strikes me now when I think about the Wilderness of Childhood is the incredible degree of freedom my parents gave me to adventure there. A very grave, very significant shift in our idea of childhood has occurred since then. The Wilderness of Childhood is gone; the days of adventure are past. The land ruled by children, to which a kid might exile himself for at least some portion of every day from the neighboring kingdom of adulthood, has in large part been taken over, co-opted, colonized, and finally absorbed by the neighbors.”
“And it came to Marcus suddenly that slaves very seldom whistled. They might sing, if they felt like it or if the rhythm helped their work, but whistling was in some way different; it took a free man to make the sort of noise Esca was making.”

Source : Rosemary Sutcliff (2011). “The Eagle of the Ninth”, p.479, Oxford University Press - Children

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