"Coffee arrived and the espresso was excellent, like an aromatic electric fence."

-- Ben Aaronovitch

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“I'd rather stimulate your mind than emulate your purpose”

Source : Song: The Guidelines, 1998
“I try to be fair, and I try not to be cruel or mean when I'm interviewing someone. But you have to push a few buttons. When you're on a roll and you're making a person laugh, you can say things that are truthful about them, and then they'll laugh at them as well. Otherwise, it might just sound like you're attacking them.”
“You've got to ask! Asking is, in my opinion, the world's most powerful - and neglected - secret to success and happiness.”
“Souness gave Fleck a second chance and he grabbed it with both feet.”
“I just want my relationship to be more for myself rather than a public statement.”
“I think it's important to be accurate on the level of the word, but it's also important to be accurate at the level of the sentence, at the level of the paragraph. Sometimes you lose sight of that - I remind myself to go back and read.”
“To be famous is to be stuck in an inflexible place. But at least it is to be stuck with money.”

Source : Spalding Gray (2011). “The Journals of Spalding Gray”, p.64, Vintage
“We ought to remember the past, yes -- but we shouldn't allow it to consume us. We live in the present moment, and some people are too tied to the ideals of that period to fully move forward. We'll never work through the future unless we accept the present. We must fill the twenty-first century with dreams.”

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