"I feel domesticity just slipping off me. It is a choice. Either one can let it go or one can intensify it. The people who intensify it seem to get quite a lot of interest out of that, too, and are as preoccupied as pirates."

-- Sylvia Townsend Warner

#People Quotes #Pirate Quotes #Choices Quotes

“Great tech opportunities happen only once.”
“You know, what's so dreadful about dying is that you are completely on your own.”
“None so blind as those who won't see.”
“Oversized houses, like oversized cars, seem to be a particularly American fixation.”

Source : "The Too-Big House" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. June 21, 2011.
“I live in the same house I've lived in for 25 years. I haven't gone off and bought mansions. Even though my subject is living, living in a mansion wouldn't do for my readers. I have to keep my credibility alive with my readers, so we're in the same place. I just make that place nicer and nicer. And that's a secret. People don't know that. People think, oh, she lives in this fabulous place, but it's the same old place. It started out like a farm, it got to be a farmette, then it got to be an estatelet. I built a wall; it helped a lot. But it's the same place, the same grounded nature.”
“Sometimes with the most intense pain a paralysis of sensibility occurs. The soul disintegrates--hence the deadly frost--the free power of the mind--the shattering, ceaseless wit of this kind of despair. There is no inclination for anything any more--the person is alone, like a baleful power--as he has no connection with the rest of the world he consumes himself gradually--and in accordance with his own principle he is--misanthropic and misotheos.”
“The United States has, overall, the most effective system of higher education the world has ever known.”

Source : Clark Kerr, Marian L. Gade, Maureen Kawaoka (1994). “Troubled Times for American Higher Education: The 1990s and Beyond”, p.182, SUNY Press
“If you do good work for good clients, it will lead to other good work for other good clients. If you do bad work for bad clients, it will lead to other bad work for other bad clients.”

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