"After that, the book will fade, the way all books fade in your mind. But I hope you will remember this: A man walking fast down a dark lonely street. Quick steps and hard breathing, all wonder and need. A bell above a door and the tinkle it makes. A clerk and a ladder and warm golden light, and then: the right book exactly, at exactly the right time."

-- Robin Sloan

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“I lived in a suitcase for a year, and then a relationship brought me to New York for about four months, then I lived in Melbourne. Then I moved back to Gothenburg because the immigrant laws are strict for both Australia and the U.S., and I would have to marry someone to get into those countries. But I wouldn't really be able to get involved in a sham marriage without being able to tell anyone about it.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“I healed. Not completely. A scar is never the same as good flesh, but it stops the bleeding.”
“A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.”
“I've never done it before. Sometimes it's tough. I don't have any peripheral vision.”
“There are no standards of taste in wine... Each man's own taste is the standard, and a majority vote cannot decide for him or in any slightest degree affect the supremacy of his own standard.”
“Life always gets harder towards the summit - the cold increases, responsibility increases”

Source : Barbara Taylor Bradford (1993). “A Woman of Substance: Act of Will”
“Sometimes I feel so stupid and dull and uncreative that I am amazed when people tell me differently.”
“Bury the dead. Say Robinson Crusoe was true to life. Well then Friday buried him. Every Friday buries a Thursday if you come to look at it.”

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