"But the toaster was quite satisfied with itself, thank you. Though it knew from magazines that there were toasters who could toast four slices at a time, it didn't think that the master, who lived alone and seemed to have few friends, would have wanted a toaster of such institutional proportions. With toast, it's quality that matters, not quantity."

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Source : Thomas M. Disch (1986). “The brave little toaster: a bedtime story for small appliances”, Doubleday Books for Young Readers

Thomas M. Disch

#Thinking Quotes #Quality Quotes #Magazines Quotes

“War is not something that can be won. Everybody loses at war.”

Source : "Giles Duley Interview by Lisa Rueff". www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“In a church of my own we're perfect together I recognize you in the stained glass.”
“You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.”
“Chicago - it's a mini-New York.”
“I longed to break out of the system and do different roles.”
“The more technique you have, the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is, the less there is.”
“With regard to the youth vote we should encourage them to partake in the process, making more use of our education system to show the role Government plays in their lives, but also utilise the youth media they relate to to better connect them to our message.”
“A wasp in a wig is altogether beyond the appliances of art.”

Source : "The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll". Book by Stuart Dodgson Collingwood (p. 146), 1898.

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