"...she still cannot resist looking out the window every couple of minutes. The sound of a passing truck causes her to glance away. Even if there is no sound, the weight of a hundred seconds always turns her head."

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Source : Mark Z. Danielewski (2000). “Mark Z. Danielewski's House of leaves”

Mark Z. Danielewski

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“At the end of the day you bet on people, not on strategies.”
“Why do Sunnis kill Shiites? How do they tell the difference? They all look the same to me.”
“For converse among men, beautiful persons have less need of the mind's commending qualities. Beauty in itself is such a silent orator, that it is ever pleading for respect and liking, and by the eyes of others is ever sending, to their hearts for love.”
“It is not enough for me to stand before you tonight and condemn riots. It would be morally irresponsible for me to do that without, at the same time, condemning the contingent, intolerable conditions that exist in our society. These conditions are the things that cause individuals to feel that they have no other alternative than to engage in violent rebellions to get attention. And I must say tonight that a riot is the language of the unheard.”
“If you can make the hits, then you won't be an Internet rapper anymore. It's good for hip-hop.”

Source : "Donnis Talks 'Fashionably Late,' Atlantic Debut & Texting With T.I". Interveiw with Jordan Martins, www.complex.com. June 24, 2010.
“Now that I work as a professional model, I advise people to stay away from any television shows. It's a waste of your time; it's just entertainment. It's not the fashion that we now know.”
“Shareware tends to combine the worst of commercial software with the worst of free software.”
“From time to time, you have seminal personalities who really change the way the world sees itself - people like Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela. Warren Buffett is that kind of person in the business world.”

Source : "Buffett lunch: $650,000 to eat with legendary investor" by Andrew Clark, www.theguardian.com. July 3, 2007.

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