"So I switch to my MacBook and make my rounds: news sites, blogs, tweets. I scroll back to find the conversations that happened without me during the day. When every single piece of media you consume is time-shifted, does that mean itâ€™s actually you thatâ€™s time-shifted?"

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Source : Robin Sloan (2012). “Mr Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore”, p.29, Atlantic Books Ltd

Robin Sloan

#Mean Quotes #Media Quotes #Pieces Quotes

“You know, at some point there has to be parity. There has to be parity between what is happening in the real world, and what is happening in the public sector world.”
“I find having your own car is like a passport to the world.”
“Cemeteries have always had a lure for me. They are well kept, free from ambiguity, logical, virile, and alive. In cemeteries you can summon up courage and arrive at decisions, in cemeteries life takes on distinct contours -- I am not referring to the borders of the graves -- and if you will, a meaning.”
“As the only woman, I was able to sit with the officers in front, with a glass of vodka in one hand and a cucumber in the other. That's how I went to my first war.”
“I want to be strong and empowered. I want to shock everybody.”

Source : "The lovely and talented Vanessa Hudgens", www.foxnews.com.
“But I too hate long books: the better, the worse. If they're bad they merely make me pant with the effort of holding them up for a few minutes. But if they're good, I turn into a social moron for days, refusing to go out of my room, scowling and growling at interruptions, ignoring weddings and funerals, and making enemies out of friends. I still bear the scars of Middlemarch.”
“Look past the garbage over the trains, Under the ruins through the remains, Around the crime and pollution, And tell me where I fit in?..”

Source : "South Bronx Subway Rap". Song by Grandmaster Caz and Chris Stein, 1983.
“There has never been a miracle drug that could equal the Word of God. God's medicine is the answer to every need.”

Source : Gloria Copeland (2012). “And Jesus Healed Them All”, Harrison House Incorporated

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