"You'd better make it your business to understand the market. The ability to charm or play the game is useful."

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Iain Sinclair

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“Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.”

Source : Cormac McCarthy (2012). “All the Pretty Horses”, p.139, Pan Macmillan
“Our house was bombed, and the roof fell in. We were sitting under the stairs of the basement, and we were quite safe, but it brought home the realization. In two nights 400 people were killed in small town.”
“The Jewish people, no matter where they are, they become the best in the world.”
“When you introduce something new to a country, you want to do it right. Generally, that means you have to do it yourself.”
“As there is no pleasure in military life for a soldier who fears death, so there is no independence in civil existence for the man who has an overpowering dread of solitude.”
“Unfortunately, once an economy is geared to expansion, the means rapidly turn into an end and "the going becomes the goal." Even more unfortunately, the industries that are favored by such expansion must, to maintain their output, be devoted to goods that are readily consumable either by their nature, or because they are so shoddily fabricated that they must soon be replaced. By fashion and built-in obsolescence the economies of machine production, instead of producing leisure and durable wealth, are duly cancelled out by the mandatory consumption on an even larger scale.”
“Lord knows what incommunicable small terrors infants go through, unknown to all.”
“I am satisfied to trifle away my time, rather than let it stick by me.”

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