"I think you can have a Left that isn't culturally conservative talking about lunch-bucket issues."

-- Richard Rorty

#Thinking Quotes #Talking Quotes #Lunch Quotes

“It's the same old story you've heard a thousand times. Somebody's trust gets broken. Somebody's left behind.”

Source : Song: If the Fall Don't Kill You
“Autumnal -- nothing to do with leaves. It is to do with a certain brownness at the edges of the day ... Brown is creeping up on us, take my word for it ... Russets and tangerine shades of old gold flushing the very outside edge of the senses... deep shining ochres, burnt umber and parchments of baked earth -- reflecting on itself and through itself, filtering the light. At such times, perhaps, coincidentally, the leaves might fall, somewhere, by repute. Yesterday was blue, like smoke.”
“I never see the dawn that I don't say to myself perhaps.”
“[To] turn poet, they say, is an infectious and incurable distemper.”
“The Long Earth is bountiful but not forgiving.”

Source : Stephen Baxter, Terry Pratchett (2013). “The Long War: (Long Earth 2)”, p.29, Random House
“I am not altogether confident of my ability to put my thoughts into words: My texts are usually better after an editor has hacked away at them, and I am used to both editing and being edited. Which is to say that I am not oversensitive in such matters.”
“I guess I'll never measure up to anyone's expectations. I surely don't measure up to what I'd like to be.”
“We still have that same burn, to get that same kind of laughs. So whether the studio wants us to or not, were going to do it. The money is just a byproduct of coming out with good stuff. Our whole thing is building that rapport with the audience.”

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