"Anthropologists are a connecting link between poets and scientists; though their field-work among primitive peoples has often made them forget the language of science."

-- Robert Graves

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“The problem isn't who is in charge. It's what is in charge. The problem is that people are encouraged to function as machines. Or, actually, as mechanisms. Human emotion and sympathy are unprofessional. They are inappropriate to the exercise of reason. Everything which makes people good - makes them human - is ruled out. The system doesn't care about people, but we treat it as if it were one of us, as if it were the sum of our goods and not the product of our least admirable compromises.”

Source : Nick Harkaway (2008). “The Gone-away World”, Random House
“I have found that I have no unusual endowments of intellect, but this day I resolve that I will be an uncommon Christian.”
“My favorite word is 'pumpkin.' You can't take it seriously. But you can't ignore it, either. It takes ahold of your head and that's it. You are a pumpkin. Or you are not. I am.”
“The old Devil gets mad when you're trying to do good. Pray that God will move the stumbling blocks.”
“I'm so passionately hopelessly in love with my job! I think the definition of workaholic is that you can't wait till the weekend is over so you can start working again.”
“Women never confess and even when they seemingly resign themselves to such a course they are not sincere.”

Source : "Monsieur Lecoq & The honor of the name". Part I,
“My relationship with my mother is not cute.”
“As great as it is, 'Vogue' won't change a designer's business. But if an unknown brand is worn by a certain person in a tabloid, it will be the biggest designer within a week.”

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