"We are Bay Aryans from Berkeley: prepare to be reengineered in an attractive range of color schemes for your safety and comfort!"

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Charles Stross

#Color Quotes #Safety Quotes #Comfort Quotes

“So often, literature about African people is conflated with literature about African politics, as if the state were somehow of greater import or interest than the individual.”
“Whoever you are, or want to be, you may not be interested in politics, but politics is interested in you.”

Source : "All That Is Solid Melts into Air review - 'a moving debut of life after Chernobyl'" by John Burnside, www.theguardian.com. March 22, 2014.
“I think itâ€™s really important to sustain your dreams. Because a person without a dream will lose his or her will to live. Even if itâ€™s just a small dream, it means a lot to that person.”
“Hookers do tricks, magicians make magic.”
“When you win a race your on top that day, so take it for what its worth, have a good time and party, cause the next day when you get out of bed, the meter goes back to zero again.”
“I'm always writing ideas down and then I stick em in my pocket and put em in that folder so I don't lose them. Like, somebody might say something, and I'll go, oh that's a good line, and that goes in the folder, too. It's kind of an ongoing process for me.”
“[Television executives] are afraid to advertise condoms that could save lives, but do not blush about telecasting a National Geographic special on President Reagan's pelvic plumbing.”
“Any individual is greater than the Milky Way.”

Source : "Flor de Obsessão: as 1000 melhores frases de Nelson Rodrigues" by Companhia das Letras, (p. 83), 1992.

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