"He wanted to fly in lightweight contraptions with her."

-- Dave Eggers

“Celebrity is more than a culture today; it is an industry, complete with fame factories.”
“I like vintage shopping, but I also like to mix in high-end.”
“It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies.”
“It is characteristic of the unlearned that they are forever proposing something which is old, and because it has recently come to their own attention, supposing it to be new.”
“The great are only great because we are on our knees. Let us rise!”
“Make a drawing. Start it all over again, trace it. Start it and trace it again.”
“This is still a man's profession, with a lot of men who intellectually and emotionally have not accepted that the military could be women's work.”
“I can think of few better ways to introduce a child to books than to let her stack them, upend them, rearrange them, and get her fingerprints all over them.”

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