"Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time; it's ten to one if they hang long together."

-- Douglas William Jerrold

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“To change with change is the changeless state”
“I think the difference between writing as someone and writing for them is that when you write for someone, you take on a kind of political burden or message, which I don't think we have the right to do.”
“My real desire is to see people live in the modus of our time, to participate in the contemporary world, to release themselves from nostalgia, antiquated traditions, old rituals, meaningless kitsch and meaningless paradigms.”

Source : "Q&A: Designer Karim Rashid". Express Interview, www.washingtonpost.com. May 3, 2007.
“In moments Akiva was up in the ether, scarcely feeling the sting of ice crystals in the thin air. He let his glamour fall away, and his wings were like sheets of fire sweeping the black of the heavens. He moved at speed, onward toward another human city to find another doorway bitter with the devil's magic, and after that another, until all bore the black handprint....Once all the doors were marked, the end would begin. And it would begin with fire.”
“Because we are in the world, we are condemned to meaning, and we cannot do or say anything without its acquiring a name in history.”

Source : Maurice Merleau-Ponty (2002). “Phenomenology of Perception”, p.22, Routledge
“The reality of a serious writer is a reality of many voices, some of them belonging to the writer, some of them belonging to the world of readers at large.”
“God, in the end, gives people what they most want, including freedom from himself. What could be more fair?”
“These proceedings may at first seem strange and difficult, but like all other steps which we have already passed over, will in a little time become familiar and agreeable: and until an independence is declared, the Continent will feel itself like a man who continues putting off some unpleasant business from day to day, yet knows it must be done, hates to set about it, wishes it over, and is continually haunted with the thoughts of its necessity.”

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