"Philately is normally a boys' hobby but for some reason it was in vogue at my junior school. Between the ages of eight and ten I collected avidly. I'd pore over my Stanley Gibbons book, obsessively checking my collection's value. I always hoped I'd stumble across a really valuable one, a Penny Black or an Inverted Jenny, but it wasn't to be."

-- Sophie Ellis Bextor

#Book Quotes #School Quotes #Boys Quotes

“Communism is like one big phone company.”
“In 2007 the 'dagger' of an idea that killed President Bush's effort at reforming the immigration system was lax border security.”
“A false idea is not only one which is absolutely subjective but one which is absolutely objective.”
“Your life informs your writing.”

Source : "Time and place: Quintin Jardine". The Sunday Times, September 20, 2009.
“Gears of War: Exile was an unannounced game that I can't give any details about that has since been cancelled.”

Source : "Gears Of War: Exile Canned" By Colin Campbell, www.ign.com. April 9, 2012.
“In a way, being raised on the farm and doing chores and stuff it's a natural thing for me to want to work outside. It's almost kind of like a rehabilitation for me with doing that.”
“Reframing an extract as a quotation constitutes a kind of coauthorship. With no change in wording, the cited passage becomes different. I imagine that the thrill of making an anthology includes the opportunity to become such a coauthor.”
“And I like the idea of change. Because I don't see why we should hang a painting on the wall and then just not think of it anymore because it's there like a piece of furniture.”

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