"Hang up the phone on a vampire, the definition of carefree."

-- Steve Aylett

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“How come you don't work fourteen hours a day? Your great-great-grandparents did. How come you only work the eight-hour day? Four guys got hanged fighting for the eight-hour day for you.”

Source : Studs Terkel, Sydney Lewis (2010). “Touch and Go: A Memoir (Large Print 16pt)”, p.92, ReadHowYouWant.com
“Port Talbot is a steel town, where everything is covered with grayÂ iron ore dust.Â Even the beach is completely littered with dust, it's justÂ black.Â The sun was setting, and it was quite beautiful.Â The contrast wasÂ extraordinary, I had this image of a guy sitting there on this dingy beachÂ with a portable radio, tuning in these strange Latin escapist songs likeÂ 'Brazil.'Â The music transported him somehow and made his world less gray.”
“Man... is an inextricable tangle of culture and biology. And not being simple, he is not simply good; he has... a kind of hell within him from which rise everlastingly the impulses which threaten his civilization. He has the faculty of imagining for himself more in the way of pleasure and satisfaction than he can possibly achieve. Everything that he gains he pays for in more than equal coin; compromise and the compounding with defeat constitute his best way of getting through the world. His best qualities are the result of a struggle whose outcome is tragic. Yet he is a creature of love...”
“I'm 64 years old and, yeah, I went through a transition in my life last year, with the death of my son, that woke me up to a lot of things. You know, I'm perfectly happy in my own little groove. Marching along, building my company, and you know, a happy person.”
“You grow up the day you have the first real laugh at yourself.”
“"Why is everyone trying to tell me that when you get older it gets better?" I didn't believe it, because I'm so contrarian and suspicious of everything. And then to find that it's kind of true is nice.”
“Every cricketer knows that in the early stages of a batsman's innings i.e. before he gets his eye in - luck plays an important part.”
“But what humans forget, cells remember. The body, that elephant”

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