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“You can't do magic with books unless they're very special copies.”
Source : Jo Walton (2011). “Among Others”, p.93, Macmillan
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“Pathology is a relatively easy thing to discuss, health is very difficult. This, of course, is one of the reasons why there is such a thing as the sacred, and why the sacred is difficult to talk about, because the sacred is peculiarly related to the healthy. One does not like to disturb the sacred, for in general, to talk about something changes it, and perhaps will turn it into a pathology.”
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“A human being can spend only so much time outside her comfort zone before she realizes she is still tethered to it.”
Source : Sloane Crosley (2010). “How Did You Get This Number”, p.8, Penguin
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“Christine O'Donnell is making a mockery of running for public office. She has no real history, no real success in any kind of business. And what that sends to my generation is, one day, you can just wake up and run for Senate, no matter how [much] lack of experience you have.”
Source : "O'Donnell and Coons". "This Week", abcnews.go.com. October 17, 2010.
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“Unimaginable perhaps; but the unimaginable is there to be imagined.”
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“The world's a rollercoaster and I am not strapped in. Maybe I should hold with care, but my hands are busy in the air.”
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“You think about, like, [20th-century classical composers] Alban Berg, Schoenberg, and Webern sitting around in some living room in Vienna and being like, "We are the end of music. We are the end of this tradition. Music is done."”
Source : "Dirty Projectors". Interview with Brandon Stosuy, pitchfork.com. July 2, 2012.
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“It isn't illegal to buy an artist's work for peanuts and sell it again at any price one can get. But it is an outrage!”
Source : "Time Tunnel". Book by Murray Leinster, ch. 2, p. 21, 1964.