"Pastoralia by George Saunders. Possibly my favorite book. Its one of the weirdest books Ive ever read. If Monty Python and Thomas Pynchon had a love child, and it was raised by Frank Zappa on a weird commune, that would be this book."

-- Libba Bray

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“My job is to perform, enjoy cricket and thank God for whatever he has given me.”
“Love me or hate me...you're gonna watch me.”
“Once I stop spending energy trying to prevent things I have no control over, I have a tremendous amount of energy to focus on the places where I can make a difference.”
“It's the ugly things I notice more, because other people tend to ignore the ugly things.”

Source : "Alexander McQueen Exhibition Extended Until August 7th" by Margie Goldsmith, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 8, 2011.
“I originally set out to try and save the world, but now I'm not sure I like it enough.”
“The whole basis of my singing is feeling. Unless I feel something, I can't sing.”

Source : Billie Holiday, William Dufty (2011). “Lady Sings the Blues: The 50th-Anniversay Edition with a Revised Discography”, p.163, Broadway Books
“If the spiritual values of human existence at its highest term of development and achievement do not endure, amidst all the changes and chances of this mortal universe, there seems to be no stable or coherent meaning in existence. Then the universe is irrational--indeed it is no universe at all.”

Source : Joseph Alexander Leighton (1922). “Man and the Cosmos - An introduction to Metaphysics.”
“Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.”

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