"Bond didn't defend the practice. He simply maintained that the more effort and ingenuity you put into gambling, the more you took out."

-- Ian Fleming

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“I only wanted Uncle Vernon standing by his own car (a Hudson) on a clear day, I got him and the car. Ialso got a bit of Aunt Maryâ€™s laundry and Beau Jack, the dog, peeing on the fence, and a row of potted tuberous begonias on the porch and 78 trees and a million pebbles in the driveway and more. Itâ€™s a generous medium, photography.”
“When the oldest Chatwin, melancholy Martin, opens the cabinet of the grandfather clock that stands in a dark, narrow back hallway in his auntâ€™s house and slip through into Fillory...itâ€™s like heâ€™s opening the covers of a book, but a book that did what books always promised to do and never ac tually quite did: get you out, really out, of where you were and into something better.”
“Music is a gut thing. You're working in a medium which is more in touch with the primal than the modern. A gig is a ritual. There's a congregation.”
“It takes a Newton to forge a Newton. What man could have fabricated a Jesus? None but a Jesus.”
“If they make the deadline because the Shiites and Kurds essentially rammed a draft through over Sunni Arab objections, there will be hell to pay.”
“Faith is not Desire. Faith is Will. Desires are things that need to be satisfied, whereas Will is a force. Will changes the space around us,...”
“Without money nothing gets done.”
“Reading, therefore, is a co-production between writer and reader. The simplicity of this tool is astounding. So little, yet out of it whole worlds, eras, characters, continents, people never encountered before, people you wouldnâ€™t care to sit next to in a train, people that donâ€™t exist, places youâ€™ve never visited, enigmatic fates, all come to life in the mind, painted into existence by the readerâ€™s creative powers. In this way the creativity of the writer calls up the creativity of the reader. Reading is never passive.”

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