"The exercise of letters is sometimes linked to the ambition to contruct an absolute book, a book of books that includes the otherslike a Platonic archetype, an object whose virtues are not diminished by the passage of time."

-- Jorge Luis Borges

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“I am a global lukewarmist.”

Source : "CLIMATE CHANGE - Preparation for the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference". Parliamentary Speech, www.peterlilley.co.uk. November 5, 2009.
“I became a real Shell Motor Oil expert, and I did this 25-minute film. It turned out really well and, as a result, they offered me more work and lots of commercials to direct.”

Source : Interview with Kenneth Plume, www.ign.com. April 27, 2001.
“One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got into my pajamas I'll never know.”
“Just one look and then I knew that all I longed for long ago was you”
“When I'm working on a serious and solid book ... I read about a detective novel a day. It's the best legal dope in the world. It makes you feel good until the next morning you can work again.”
“I am the worlds laziest writer.”
“If you will think of ourselves as coming out of the earth, rather than having been thrown in here from somewhere else, you see that we are the earth, we are the consciousness of the earth. These are the eyes of the Earth. And this is the voice of the earth.”
“The reason the lawyers lead the line to the guillotine or the firing squad is that, while law is supposed to be a device to serve society, a civilized way of helping the wheels go round without too much friction, it is pretty hard to find a group less concerned with serving society and more concerned with serving themselves than the lawyers.”

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