"Political people don't solve stuff - not really. Political people are like guys in pop music."

-- Bruce Sterling

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“A man who would letterspace lower case would steal sheep, Frederic Goudy liked to say. If this wisdom needs updating, it is chiefly to add that a woman who would letterspace lower case would steal sheep as well .”
“Visiting a museum is a matter of going from void to void.”
“Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic. Capable of both inflicting injury, and remedying it.”
“If they would all sleep all the time she wouldn't mind being their mother.”

Source : Kate Atkinson (2010). “Case Histories: (Jackson Brodie)”, p.34, Random House
“Proper turkey preparation is critical. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, more Americans die every year from eating improperly cooked turkey than were killed in the entire Peloponnesian War. This is because turkey can contain salmonella, which are tiny bacteria that, if they get in your bloodstream, develop into full-grown salmon, which could come leaping out of your mouth during an important business presentation.”
“I still believe in rock and roll, it pays my bills.”
“The Parent Trap gave my career another boost, starring in family comedies.”
“The world is going mad in mutual extermination, and murder, considered as a crime when committed individually, becomes a virtue when it is committed by large numbers. It is the multiplication of the frenzy that assures impunity to the assassins.”

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