"For whatever you live is life."

-- Robert Penn Warren

“When Cameron's Conservatives come to power it will be a golden age for cyclists and an Elysium of cycle lanes, bike racks, and sharia law for bike thieves. And I hope that cycling in London will become almost Chinese in its ubiquity.”
“We are participants, whether we would or not, in the life of the world.... We are partners with the rest. What affects mankind isinevitably our affair as well as the nations of Europe and Asia.”
“I should be doing that too. I should be out there running and racing. I should be taking care of my body.”
“You have to be nicer to me," I said. Again he laughed. "What? I'm the King of nice. What are you talking about?" "You have to be nicer to me or... or..." "Or what?" he said. Still Lars, still charming and jokey, but with a thread of fear. It snaked in and pierced my numbness and almost broke my resolve. Almost, but not quite. "Or I have ti break up with you." I whispered What was there more to say? Nothing. So I hung up.”
“Even when I lecture per se, I am a joke comedian, I can do the voices.”

Source : "No pain, no gain". Interview with Kate Kellaway, www.theguardian.com. February 15, 2004.
“I had a running compiler and nobody would touch it. They told me computers could only do arithmetic.”
“The last thing Texas women need in their lives is Greg Abbott,”
“She walked to the rear door and took out a bobby pin from her pocket. Hugo watched as she fiddled with the pin inside the lock until it clicked and the door opened. "How did you learn to do that?" asked Hugo. "Books," answered Isabelle.”

Source : Brian Selznick (2015). “The Invention of Hugo Cabret”, p.95, Scholastic

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