"The Friday Night Knitting Club"

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Source : Kate Jacobs (2008). “The Friday Night Knitting Club”, p.371, Penguin

Kate Jacobs

#Inspirational Quotes #Friday Quotes #Night Quotes

“Robert Zubrin’s masterful study…makes for riveting reading. . a cautionary tale of what happens when powerful, unprincipled elites are not only alienated from the mass of their fellow men, but come to see them as a barrier to imagined social, evolutionary, or environmental progress.”
“The greatest memory for me of the 1984 Olympics was not the individual honors, but standing on the podium with my teammates to receive our team gold medal.”
“The Internet has become a hate-filled town square with no limits put on destructive verbal behavior.”
“For black people, being around white people is sometimes like taking care of babies you don't like, babies who throw up on you again and again, but whom you cannot punish, because they're babies.”

Source : Hilton Als (2013). “White Girls”, p.224, McSweeney's
“The candid camera is the greatest liar in the photographic family.... It is anarchic, naïve, and superficial.”

Source : Lincoln Kirstein (2012). “Walker Evans: American Photographs: Seventy-Fifth Anniversary Edition”, The Museum of Modern Art
“Progress is a continuing effort to make the things we eat, drink, and wear as good as they used to be.”
“With the new Russia allegations coming to the fore once again, the conclusion of the intelligence agencies, we've got to have those [Donald Trump's] taxes to evaluate whether these conflicts go to the heart of our most pressing national security interests.”
“I try to maintain a positive attitude at all times, because clients notice little things like that, and if you're frowning and crying all the time and saying "why? why?", they get worried.”

Source : John Swartzwelder (2004). “The Time Machine Did It”

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