"Writing prejudicial, off-putting reviews is a precise exercise in applied black magic. The reviewer can draw free-floating disagreeable associations to a book by implying that the book is completely unimportant without saying exactly why, and carefully avoiding any clear images that could capture the reader's full attention."

-- William S. Burroughs

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“Don't allow missed opportunities of the past interfere with the opportunities that are right before you.”
“In America we're in this awful situation, and you know, I hardly get any royalties anymore because music is just stolen from the internet.”
“Vegetation is the basic instrument the creator uses to set all of nature in motion.”
“It is unlikely that you'll have anything emerge from MEF (Major Economies Forum) by way of detailed programmatic specificity.”

Source : "Rudd bamboozles Germans with 'programmatic specificity'". Perth Now, July 9, 2009.
“there's two kinds of folk in the world, just like there's two kinds of life in a seed. Something sends one kind up to hunt its food in the light and air, and sends the other kind down into the earth to make the roots.”
“Gratitude is the wine for the soul. Go on. Get drunk.”
“The best thing that happened is I kept my promises. I ain't run out on nobody.”

Source : Interview with Trevor Noah, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 8, 2016.
“The great fault of mankind is that it will not think.”

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