"Walking the stacks in a library, dragging your fingers across the spines -- it's hard not to feel the presence of sleeping spirits."

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Source : Robin Sloan (2012). “Mr Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore”, p.93, Atlantic Books Ltd

Robin Sloan

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“Behind every coincidence, every stroke of luck, and every miracle, there is inevitably a cold and calculating mind.”
“I'm really glad I'm not on Twitter. Because I'd have to be answering things that I didn't really know anything about, and I'd rather just wait for the dust to settle and then say something.”

Source : Source: thequietus.com
“Life punishes those who come too late.”
“I want to play football, I love to play football so if that opportunity is not going to be given there [Manchester City] then I'm going to have to look elsewhere and may have to make somewhere else my home.”

Source : "Joe Hart: Man City keeper says he is 'surplus to requirements'". Interview with Steve Bower, www.bbc.com. MArch 10, 2017.
“Very often people who live in a ghetto accept some of the stigmatisation against them. I mention the case of a Japanese minority the Burakumin, which was pure Japanese in descent, but which was concerned with dirty work: leather work, cadavers, and some other things.There was a famous story of an old man who asked: 'Do you yourself believe you are the same as the Japanese?' And the outsider said: 'I do not know, we are dirty.' This kind of conscience was never there in the surroundings in which I lived. One always felt as someone whom could be proud of, being both German and Jewish.”

Source : Source: quod.lib.umich.edu
“We came out to get Game 1 but we also want to get Game 2”
“Ease leads to habit, as success to ease. He lives by rule who lives himself to please.”

Source : George Crabbe, George Crabbe (Jr.) (1834). “The poetical works of the rev. George Crabbe: with his letters and journals, and his life”, p.37
“You get three hours' sleep and then you start all over again. Relentless. Pre-production was almost harder than filming. I was all over the city every day. It was really exhausting.”

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