"If this sounds impressive to you, youâ€™re over thirty."

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Source : Robin Sloan (2012). “Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore: A Novel”, p.42, Macmillan

Robin Sloan

#Sound Quotes #Thirty Quotes #Impressive Quotes

“Even to this day, the government, the FDA is refusing to use the sophisticated biotechnology to evaluate the contaminants in the vaccines such as the polio vaccines that they are administering. I think (people) would be appalled that some of the vaccines that are currently being used are still laced with viruses.”
“What you look at hard seems to look at you.”

Source : Gerard Manley Hopkins (1966). “A Hopkins reader: selections”
“The problem with most genre fantasy is that it's not nearly fantastic enough. It's escapist, but it can't escape.”
“Lies will flow from my lips, but there may perhaps be some truth mixed up with them ...”
“This is a business meal. The calories do not count. I am mentally labeling these as 'business calories' so my body will know they were eaten in the line of duty and will process them differently.”
“They say living well is the best revenge but sometimes writing well is even better.”
“We have way better ***** flags than THAT one.”
“Cities are the huge central dynamos of all being. The power of a man can be measured today by the mile, the number of miles between him and the city; that is, between him and what the city stands for -- the centre of mass.”

Source : Gerald Stanley Lee (1913). “Crowds: A Moving-picture of Democracy”

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