"There was a time in the 1930s when magazine writers could actually make a good living. 'The Saturday Evening Post' and 'Collier's' both had three stories in each issue. These were usually entertaining, and people really went for them. But then television came along, and now of course, information technology...the new way of killing time."

-- Tom Wolfe

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“How many lost souls do You need, Lord, to satisfy Your hunger? the hatter asked. God, in His infinite silence, looked at him without blinking.”
“It's kind of nice in some ways having an Olympic Trials where I finished second. You can kind of go in more under the radar facing a 2:03 guy and facing a lot of dudes who are faster than I am, whereas, before Beijing, I had one of the top 10 times in the field, or something like that.”
“God gets the easiest performance reviews.”

Source : Daryl Gregory (2014). “Afterparty”, p.17, Macmillan
“It was one thing to divide the major assets, but how was it possible to divide the heart?”
“Bury you with Satan, to hell then I bury ya. I'm like Lucifer the unforgiven, cast out of heaven, I much rather rule in hell than be a servant. A hell on earth survivor means you better be a earner.”
“There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.”

Source : Freya Stark (2011). “The Lycian Shore”, p.27, Tauris Parke Paperbacks
“A developed country isn’t a place where the poor have cars. It’s where the rich use public transportation.”
“The neck on which diamonds might have worthily sparkled, will look less tempting when the biting winter has hung icicles there for gems.”

Source : Samuel Lover (1843). “Handy Andy: A Tale of Irish Life”, p.356

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