"To Englishmen, life is a topic, not an activity."

-- William Henry Harrison

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“I think translation is an impossible job, and I admire the people who do it in a way that brings poetry to us that we wouldn't have access to.”

Source : "Road Trip". Interview with Ali Liebegott, logger.believermag.com. October 25, 2013.
“This girl has the spark of life. This is my primary filter for new friends (girl- and otherwise) and the highest compliment I can pay. I've tried many times to figure out exactly what ignites it -- what cocktail of characteristics come together in the cold, dark cosmos to form a star. I know it's mostly in the face -- not just the eyes, but the brow, the cheeks, the mouth, and the micromuscles that connect them all. Kat's micromuscles are very attractive.”
“It wasnâ€™t like in the storybooks. No witches lurked at crossroads disguised as crones, waiting to reward travelers who shared their bread. Genies didnâ€™t burst from lamps, and talking fish didnâ€™t bargain for their lives. In all the world, there was only one place humans could get wishes: Brimstoneâ€™s shop. And there was only one currency he accepted. It wasnâ€™t gold, or riddles, or kindness, or any other fairy-tale nonsense, and no, it wasnâ€™t souls, either. It was weirder than any of that. It was teeth.”
“In the time of my parents, before World War One, most people who came to New Zealand from Europe were the more enterprising people; the people who were stronger mentally. It takes a certain amount of imagination to make a life on the other side of the world, the same imagination it takes to climb the tallest mountain.”
“You may wonder why a question of manners has got me so exercised. It's because I believe in a simple rule. If you see a person you know behave unreasonably to someone else, you can bet your last pound that before long he'll be behaving like that to you.”
“Faith is often the boast of the man who is too lazy to investigate.”
“I can understand that people are not happy, but they should not use football to make their demands heard”
“As sight is in the eye, so is the mind in the soul!”

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