"... one doesn't want to read badly any more than live badly, since time will not relent. I don't know that we owe God or nature a death, but nature will collect anyway, and we certainly owe mediocrity nothing, whatever collectivity it purports to advance or at least represent."

-- Harold Bloom

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“Between now and when we graduate next year there are at least ten weeks' holiday and five random public holidays. There's email and if you manage to get down to the town, there's text messaging and mobile phone calls. If not, the five minutes you get to speak to me on your communal phone is better than nothing. There are the chess nerds who want to invite you to our school for the chess comp next March and there's this town in the middle, planned by Walter Burley Griffin, where we can meet up and protest against our government's refusal to sign the Kyoto treaty." -Jonah Griggs”
“I spend most of my time in my head. You can always work out solutions and satisfactions there. Maybe you can't actually bring them about, but there's usually a pleasant pillow of time between imagining you can, and realizing you cannot.”
“When you walk a dog on a short leash, she's close enough to bite you.”

Source : Ilona Andrews (2010). “Magic Bleeds”, p.99, Penguin
“Hammer and tongs! I am so torn between rage and joy, that if I do not burst, it will be a marvel!”
“I advise everyone to find an island in this life. Find a place where this culture can't take energy away from you, sap your will and originality. Since anything physical can be mental, that island can be your home. Turn off the electromagnetic waves being forced upon you, the countless invisible forces coming at you all the time.”

Source : The RZA (2009). “The Tao of Wu”, p.21, Penguin
“His laughter tinkled among the teacups.”
“It is the story that matters not just the ending.”
“I've just found out there are pages on the internet dedicated to whether I'm gay or not.”

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