"...bookstores, libraries... they're the closest thing I have to a church."

-- Jim C. Hines

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“In the natural world, beautiful usually means deadly. Beautiful with a casual demeanor always means deadly.”
“I shall develop the thesis that anyone acting communicatively must, in performing any speech act, raise universal validity claims and suppose that they can be vindicated.”

Source : "n the Pragmatics of Communication". Book by Jürgen Habermas, 1998.
“Photography mirrored the [nineteenth century] will towards rigor, towards defining details, the need for miniscule description, the long-distance optics, for technology at the service of truth, for concepts of credibility, of objectivity, the need to archive, for the consolidation of institutions like the museum, in short, towards a need to control memory.”
“Everything is a narrative in life. I learned that early on as a reporter at the Washington Post.”

Source : "Kara Swisher discusses life, D: All Things Digital". Interview with Sarah Adler, www.sfgate.com. May 27, 2012.
“I felt sure we could gain the upper hand by putting ourselves in the mindset of the Incas.”

Source : Tahir Shah (2013). “House of the Tiger King Paperback”, p.46, Lulu.com
“I don't know what to do with myself between films. I end up doing unhealthy things like shopping or drinking. I'm pretty schizophrenic about it.”
“I grew up in Texas, obviously a huge football state”
“I'm good at exploring roofs. You never know when that kind of thing comes in useful.”

Source : "The Rubadub Mystery". Book by Enid Blyton, www.theguardian.com. 1951.

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