"Are you going to tell me what that was about?â€ Adam asked as we went back upstairs. â€œSometime,â€ I told him. â€œWhen we're telling ghost stories around a campfire, and I want to scare you."

-- Patricia Briggs

#Ghost Stories Quotes #Scare Quotes #Want Quotes

“It had the old double keyboard, an entirely different set of keys for capitals and figures, so that the paper seemed a long way off, and the machine was as big and solid as a battle cruiser. Typing was then a muscular activity. You could ache after it. If you were not familiar with those vast keyboards, your hand wandered over them like a child lost in a wood. The noise might have been that of a shipyard on the Clyde. You would no more have thought of carrying one of those grim structures as you would have thought of travelling with a piano.”
“Absence of Quality is the essence of squareness.”
“Very few of the heroes of the Golden Age of American finance had much interest in the solid realities of what underlay their structure of stocks and bonds and credits .”

Source : "The Worldly Philosophers". Book by Robert Heilbroner, Chapter VIII, Thorstein Veblen (p. 224), 1953.
“In actuality it's drum samples in the computer. I don't know, I've just never really dug into that whole technology thing, I feel like it hurts me as a musician a little.”
“There are many teenage vampire books you could have purchased instead. I'm grateful you made this choice.”
“No reason to feel depressed about being depressed. A depression can be a golden opportunity to collect the pieces and build ourselves anew. Global Souls are always on the move, nomads at heart, connected to various cities, commuters between cultures, both from here and everywhere.”
“When you first saw 'The Truman Show,' did anyone else walk around for the next week not picking your nose just in case?”
“Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty.”

Source : David Mitchell (2012). “Cloud Atlas (Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition): A Novel”, p.185, Random House Group

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