"Some of them are working very hard indeed. â€œWhat are they doing?â€ â€œMy boy!â€ he said, eyebrows raised. As if nothing could be more obvious. â€œThey are reading!"

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Source : Robin Sloan (2012). “Mr Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore”, p.16, Atlantic Books Ltd

Robin Sloan

#Reading Quotes #Boys Quotes #Eyebrows Quotes

“Giving is better than receiving because giving starts the receiving process.”
“A kind of golden hour one remembers for a life time... Everything was touched with magic.”
“Global inequality is such an abstract concept, simply because there is no global government. Telling people in rich countries who have had no increase in real incomes, stagnant median wages and so on, that on the other hand global inequality is going down because people who are much poorer than them are getting richer - it's something that maybe they would like in an abstract sense, because everyone is happy there are fewer poor Chinese, but you may not be as happy if these Chinese are taking your job.”
“Earth's sweat, the sea.”

Source : Parmenides, Empedocles (2011). “Parmenides and Empedocles: The Fragments in Verse Translation”, p.45, Wipf and Stock Publishers
“What I've discovered is that my kids weren't watching the 'Today' show... they watch 'Gumby' and 'Bugs Bunny!'”
“In humor, almost always, less is more.”
“ImaginationÂ is a licensed trespasser: it has no fear of dogs, but may climb over walls and peep in at windows with impunity.”
“After a few years of meditation practice we can even learn how to occasionally ignore ourselves. And what relief that can be!”

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