"Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols."

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Source : 'The Magic Mountain' (1924) ch. 4, sect. 4 (translation by H. T. Lowe-Porter)

Thomas Mann

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“If it was true that lower taxes for the rich and more wealth to the wealthy leat to job creation, today we would be drowning in jobs.”
“It was instilled in me that the money I was given was not to be lost or spent on any other purpose.”
“Go and don't come back, you can take the catmint. I have no quarrel with ThunderClan; I don't want to see cats suffer, whatever you might think. Just be careful you don't end up like a bully like your kin, Tigerstar.”
“It's akin to style, what I'm talking about, but it isn't style alone. It is the writer's particular and unmistakable signature on everything he writes. It is his world and no other. This is one of the things that distinguishes one writer from another. Not talent. There's plenty of that around. But a writer who has some special way of looking at things and who gives artistic expression to that way of looking: that writer may be around for a time.”

Source : Raymond Carver (2015). “Call If You Need Me: The Uncollected Fiction and Other Prose”, p.99, Vintage
“If there's friends around, I'll cook. Or if I have a girlfriend. But on my own I kind of fell out of the habit of it, and it's a shame really because I know it's good for me. It's something quite therapeutic.”
“I hate reality TV, because it's so bullshit.”

Source : Source: screenanarchy.com
“He's [Captain Cold] not the big bad, but he's certainly playing a pretty big role. Especially in the early part of the season, he's Barry's main nemesis. There is a very definitive big bad in Season 1 that will become apparent as you watch the show. How's that for saying nothing?”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Pictorial art is relating tones to create beauty - like chords of music - not the faithful copying of the model.”

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