"For what use are books to anyone whose days are like a rook's nest with every twig a duty."

--

Mervyn Peake

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“People are always asking me why they don't make Westerns like they used to.”
“I take around 60 trips a year for business so I can't say that I enjoy the act of travelling itself. I wish I could be transported to my destination without having to go on the journey to get there.”

Source : Source: www.ft.com
“Better to seek change by inspiration, than out of desperation.”
“Some scars never heal. And he sounds like he has a lot of them.' 'But Christ had scars too, even on His risen Body. Wounds in this life become glory in the next.”
“The US head of state grew up on food stamps. The British head of state grew up on the postage stamps.”

Source : Twitter post from Jun 03, 2012
“We must occasionally remind ourselves of our brief visit on this planet. Shouldn't we try to express ourselves clearly, make a personal stamp on our environment, and pay attention to the details that make the difference?”
“Under the rule of a repressive whole, liberty can be made into a powerful instrument of domination.”

Source : Herbert Marcuse (1964). “One dimensional man: studies in the ideology of advanced industrial society”
“Life gives you plenty of time to do whatever you want to do if you stay in the present moment.”

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