"A book sometimes seems to impose a through-line to life that real life doesn't actually have."

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Chris Ware

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“I know what I like and what I want, and I can sit and enjoy every 10 minutes that go by. And truly enjoy it.”
“We are born poets. we become orators.”
“There are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers.”
“When we reject unemployment as an economic instrument as we do and when we reject also superficial remedies, as socialists must, then we must ask ourselves unflinchingly what is the cause of high unemployment. Quite simply and unequivocally, it is caused by paying ourselves more than the value of what we produce. There are no scapegoats.”

Source : James Callaghan (1987). “Time and chance”, HarperCollins
“Every year, the average American eats as much as 33 pounds of cheese. That's up to 60,000 calories and 3,100 grams of saturated fat. So why do we eat so much cheese? Mainly it's because the government is in cahoots with the processed food industry. And instead of responding in earnest to the health crisis, they've spent the past 30 years getting people to eat more. This is the story of how we ended up doing just that.”
“Iâ€™m not the smartest guy in the world, but Iâ€™m certainly not the dumbest. I mean, Iâ€™ve read books like "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" and "Love in the Time of Cholera", and I think Iâ€™ve understood them. Theyâ€™re about girls, right? Just kidding. But I have to say my all-time favorite book is Johnny Cashâ€™s autobiography "Cash" by Johnny Cash.”
“We knew so little about eachother. We lay mostly submerged, like ice floes with our visible social selves projecting only cool and white. Here was a rare sight below the waves, of a man's privacy and turmoil, of his dignity upended by the overpowering necessity of pure fantasy, pure thought, by the irreducible human element - Mind.”
“A camel looks like a horse that was planned by a committee.”

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