"While I was writing poems, I would often divert myself by reading detective novels, I liked them. And there was a period when I read many of them. I absorbed the form, and I liked it, it was a good one, mostly the hard-boiled school, you know, Chandler, Hammett, and their heirs. That was the direction that interested me most."

-- Paul Auster

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“It does so happen to be the case that if the freedom of the people of this country-and especially the rights of trade unionists-if those precious things in the past had been left to the good sense and fairmindedness of judges, we would have precious few freedoms in this country.”

Source : Michael Foot's speech to the Union of Post Office Workers in Bournemouth, May 15, 1977.
“I played seven years without ever hitting the ball.”
“Mocking a woman is like drinking too much wine. It may be fun for a short time, but the hangover is hell.”

Source : Brandon Sanderson (2009). “Warbreaker”, p.82, Macmillan
“Our perception of space-time can be thought of in terms of event coordinates relative to our current state of consciousness.”
“Thus, when we plead for the gift of charity, we aren't asking for lovely feelings toward someone who bugs us or someone who has injured or wounded us. We are actually pleading for our very natures to be changed, for our character and disposition to become more and more like the Savior's, so that we literally feel as He would feel and thus do what He would do.”
“Going back to that idea that painting sits still and that we give ourselves over to it over time. There's a difference between living with - imagine if this were sitting in your living room for 15 years. You'd probably understand the contours of it.”
“Conservation means the wise use of the earth and its resources for the lasting good of men”

Source : Gifford Pinchot (1998). “Breaking New Ground”, p.505, Island Press
“In Florence, classical buildings sit against medieval buildings. It's that contrast we like.”

Source : "Interview: architects Richard Rogers, Graham Stirk and Ivan Harbour". Interview with Charlotte Higgins, www.theguardian.com. January 27, 2012.

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