"I walk alone in the darkness and wonder how a person would begin to determine the circumference of the earth. I have no idea. Iâ€™d probably just google it."

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Source : Robin Sloan (2012). “Mr Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore”, p.132, Atlantic Books Ltd

Robin Sloan

#Ideas Quotes #Darkness Quotes #Google Quotes

“You're supposed to look a certain way when you're a celebrity, but I want to take care of my baby, and those two things don't mesh very well.”
“Life would be so much harder if I had to lie about who I was.”
“When you're a brown Muslim from Iran talking about Jesus on TV, you need to keep your cool at all times, OK? That's not rocket science.”
“No question about that, the radicals are in charge.”
“I guess that's what I was: a set of abs. And they lit the abs and shot the abs and sent the abs on their way. The photographer didn't look at my face once. I was humiliated.”
“We teach children to save their money. As an attempt to counteract thoughtless and selfish expenditure, that has value. But it is not positive; it does not lead the child into the safe and useful avenues of self-expression or self-expenditure. To teach a child to invest and use is better than to teach him to save.”
“Her mind emptied of everything but the gusting wind and how fragile Wolf looked in that heartbeat, like one movement could break him open.”
“The history of drawing is a history of 'realities'. Every age has its own conceptions, held to be true at that time, believed to be true for all times.”

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