"How is a magician to exist without books? Let someone explain that to me. It is like asking a politician to achieve high office without the benefit of bribes or patronage."

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Susanna Clarke

#Book Quotes #Office Quotes #Benefits Quotes

“My work is about giving voice to the unheard, and reiterating the voice of the heard in such a way that you question, or re-examine, what is the truth.”
“Touch screen voting is a fine thing so long as they have a voter-verified paper trail.”

Source : "MoveOn as an Instrument of the People". Interview with Terrence McNally, www.alternet.org. June 24, 2004.
“We're comic. We're all comics. We live in a comic time. And the worse it gets the more comic we are.”

Source : William Gaddis (1955). “The Recognitions: A Novel”, Harcourt
“To most humans, a universe consisting of particles banging about and doing what they have to do seems cold, barren, and without meaning. Meaning, however, is not something that floats in space, permeating the universe like a nebulous, mystical cloud. ... Meaning arises out of the working of the human mind, and therefore exists only in the human mind. The meaning of existence is whatever you want to make of it.”
“Money is like fire, an element as little troubled by moralizing as earth, air and water. Men can employ it as a tool or they can dance around it as if it were the incarnation of a god. Money votes socialist or monarchist, finds a profit in ***** or translations from the Bible, commissions Rembrandt and underwrites the technology of Auschwitz. It acquires its meaning from the uses to which it is put.”
“Women have much more heart and much more imagination than men; hence, fancy often allures them.”
“As long as there are ways we can serve, then we have a job to do.”
“For whatever reason, people know that car crashes can happen but they don't live with that fear every day when they're driving, or they're able to overcome it.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

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