"We already know that anonymous letters are despicable. In etiquette, as well as in law, hiring a hit man to do the job does not relieve you of responsibility."

-- Judith Martin

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“Do you ever make silly mistakes? It is one of my very few creative activities.”

Source : LEN DEIGHTON (1967). “AN EXPENSIVE PLACE TO DIE”
“Humor can alter any situation and help us cope at the very instant we are laughing.”
“And takin' a bath in the creek. That's the stuff that really made it worthwhile. Anybody can stay in a motel.”
“Americans resent the vagaries of weather to a degree unknown to other peoples. ... Weather is a force we have lost touch with. We feel entitled to dominate it, like everything else in the environment, and when we can't are more panic-stricken than primitives who know that when nature is out of control they can only pray to the gods.”
“Reengineering posits a radical new principle: that the design of work must be based not on hierarchical management and the specialization of labor but on end-to-end processes and the creation of value for the customer.”

Source : "Reengineering the Corporation: A Manifesto for Business Revolution" by Michael Hammer, James A. Champy, HarperCollins, (p. 11), 1993.
“I like having some things very clear while other things are obscured... so that it kind of keeps coming into and out of focus.”

Source : "Shearwater". Interview with Jason Crock, pitchfork.com. April 24, 2007.
“This is the autumn of wonders, yet every day, every single day, I go back to that burned afternoon in August when T. Ray left. I go back to that one moment when I stood in the driveway with small rocks and clumps of dirt around my feet and looked back at the porch. And there they were. All these mothers. I have more mothers than any eight girls off the street. They are the moons shining over me.”
“The social principles of Christianity preach cowardice, self-contempt, abasement, submission, humility, in a word all the qualities of the canaille”

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