"...I want to grab her collarbones as if they were handlebars."

-- Joe Dunthorne

“I do adore food. If I have any vice it's eating. If I was told I could only eat one food for the rest of my life, I could put up with sausage and mash forever.”
“Isnâ€™t it sad that so often it takes facing death to appreciate life and each other fully?”
“Life isnâ€™t like the movies. People donâ€™t change overnight. people donâ€™t go from arrogant and self-righteous to ashamed and remorseful. They donâ€™t suddenly give in when theyâ€™ve spent years taking out. No doesnâ€™t magically become a Yes.”
“The Government cannot afford to have a country made up entirely of rich people, because rich people pay so little tax that the Government would quickly go bankrupt. This is why Government men always tell us that labor is man's noblest calling. Government needs labor to pay its upkeep.”

Source : Russell Baker (1983). “So This Is Depravity”, Pocket Books
“The company is not and must never claim to be home, family, religion, life or fate for the individual. It must never interfere in his private life or his citizenship. He is tied to the company through a voluntary and cancellable employment contract, not through some mystical or indissoluble bond.”
“Iâ€™m not too into the trends - I like to look at trends as suggestions, not as rules.”
“The Shadow-maker shapes forever.”

Source : Lafcadio Hearn (2012). “Kotto: Being Japanese Curios, With Sundry Cobwebs”, p.109, Tuttle Publishing
“Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.”

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