"Alec Nevala-Lee comes roaring out of the gate with a novel that's asÂ thrilling as it is thought-provoking, as unexpected as it is erudite.Â The Icon ThiefÂ is a wild ride through a fascinating and morally complexÂ world, a puzzle Duchamp himself would have applauded. Bravo."

-- Jesse Kellerman

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“The man that gets drunk is little else than a fool, And is in the habit, no doubt, of advocating for Home Rule; But the best Home Rule for him, as far as I can understand, Is the abolition of strong drink from the land.”

Source : William Topaz McGonagall, “The Demon Drink”
“Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor.”
“I went from the glamour of working with Karl Lagerfeld and John Galliano to living on an isolated hilltop, with my husband gone most of the time.”

Source : "Kristen Stewart's 'humiliated' boyfriend Robert Pattinson moves out, wife of Rupert Sanders bemoans 'isolation' from husband". www.foxnews.com. July 26, 2012.
“Not to be too doctrinaire, but we live in the patriarchy! And therefore anything explicitly associated with the female gender, including motherhood, needs to be defensively claimed, because it's either devalued or sentimentally idealized, but not supported. I so thoroughly believe that female human beings have worth that I don't feel the need to argue it, but I think that there's a part of me that very specifically wants to make space for those ideas to be centralized, if only for the moment.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“The only reason why people do not have what they want is because they are thinking more about what they don't want than what they do want.”
“A Church which abandons the truth abandons itself.”

Source : Die Kirche (translated by Ray and Rosalee Ockenden as The Church, 1967).
“I know you think this world is too dark to even dream in color, but Iâ€™ve seen flowers bloom at midnight. Iâ€™ve seen kites fly in gray skies and they were real close to looking like the sunrise, and sometime it takes the most wounded wings the most broken things to notice how strong the breeze is, how precious the flight.”
“I think of the Replacements only when they're brought up to me. For two years, I'm at home, they don't really cross my mind. I still hear them on the radio. I'm not ashamed of anything we did.”

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