"A number of frail girls... prisoners in the top room of a circular tower, embroidering a kind of tapestry which spilled out the slit windows and into a void, seeking hopelessly to fill the void: for all the other buildings and creatures, all the waves, ships and forests of the earth were contained in this tapestry, and the tapestry was the world."

-- Thomas Pynchon

#Girl Quotes #Numbers Quotes #Towers Quotes

“There is a thought that poverty is a public policy failure; poverty is man-made by action and non-action: poverty can be eliminated.”
“All this improvement is great, but all that does is get us in the game to play for improvements that we need in the future, so that we can be aggressive in the marketplace.”
“We don't ask any people to throw away any good they have got; we only ask them to come and get more. What if all the world should embrace this Gospel? They would then see eye to eye, and the blessings of God would be poured out upon the people, which is the desire of my whole soul.”
“Your employees come first. And if you treat your employees right, guess what? Your customers come back, and that makes your shareholders happy. Start with employees and the rest follows from that.”
“The success of a close friend is often wounding, especially if he has been poor for so long.”
“The Stones are a different kind of group. I realized that when I joined them. It's not really so much their musical ability, it's just they have a certain kind of style and attitude which is unique”
“There's no in between-you're either good or bad. We were in between.”
“But I just loved looking at the clothes of the '70s.”

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