"There is a quality even meaner than outright ugliness or disorder, and this meaner quality is the dishonest mask of pretended order, achieved by ignoring or suppressing the real order that is struggling to exist and to be served."

-- Jane Jacobs

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“People will less and less need to put an identity on genres, such as "hip hop," "electronica" and so forth. That's what I try to do with Princess Superstar. Why should a musician be limited to only one form or one genre of music? And so, I think the same will hold true for the whole male/female categorization.”
“Every happening is a lesson, a message.”
“I think booze is a good ritual. I think knocking back a shot of whiskey does calm the nerves and helps a lot.”

Source : "The Honeymooner". Interview with Katherine Cusumano, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 11, 2014.
“We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.”
“Theres a lot of muscles in your eyes even that you dont ever work, but little human traits like showing signs of exertion while running, you couldnt do that. Blinking when youre shooting a gun, you know. Things that you take for granted every day that had to be eliminated, so it was always interesting.”
“What I wanted to do was slap him down a bit with wit and words. Grammar and vocabulary as a weapon. But what kind of world would it be if we all took every opportunity presented to us to assault the weak?”
“I've always found it much more dangerous to fool with a man's mistress than his wife.”

Source : Harold Robbins (1985). “The Inheritors”, Pocket
“Math-thinking, I would say, encourages flipping and substituting letters in words (in the novel, one of the boys double-majors in math and myth, for example, and his twin cracks a joke about the father's handwriting that morphs "cacography" into "dadography").”

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