"People have less privacy and are crammed together in cities, but in the wide open spaces they secretly keep tabs on each other a lot more"

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Sara Paretsky

#Cities Quotes #Space Quotes #People Quotes

“The poor sleep little.”

Source : 1682 Venice Preserved, or a Plot Discovered, act 2, sc.3.
“Most of the women I saw on TV didn't seem like people I actually knew. They felt like ideas of what women are.”
“Bears, dragons, tempestuous on mountain and river, Startle the forest and make the heights tremble. Clouds darken beneath the darkness of rain, streams pale with a pallor of mist. The gods of Thunder and Lightning Shatter the whole range.”
“I'm hoping that Penn State will one day be able to find a cure for cancer. Being a part of THON means I'm doing my part to find that cure.”
“The nuclear weapons were not useful for the achievement of political objectives.”
“The memo's chief function ... is as a track-coverer, so that you can turn on someone six months later and snarl: 'Well, you should have known about it, I sent you a memo.”
“The more you understand what you're dealing with, the stronger you get. People see fear as a bad thing. Fear is healthy when you're dealing with Amerika. But when fear controls you, when you're afraid to struggle fear is a bad thing. I'm more afraid of what will happen if I don't struggle, than what will happen if I do”
“We opened El Bulli; there were no secrets there. The recipes were not secret. Anybody who came, the recipes were there for them. This was unthinkable then.”

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