"A novel is a tricky thing to map."

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Source : Reif Larsen (2010). “The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet: A Novel”, p.49, Penguin

Reif Larsen

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“Every study on chocolate is pointing to the same conclusion: there is something in chocolate that is really good for us. That something is the raw cacao bean, the nut that all chocolate is made from. The cacao bean has always been and will always be Nature's #1 weight loss and high-energy food. Cacao beans are probably the best kept secret in the entire history of food.”
“I read all of Rider Haggard's books. For me he had the romance of Africa with a little bit of mysticism. I'm delighted to be looked on as his heir and be categorised as an adventure novelist because that's exactly what I am.”
“I think that there's only one nationality and one language in the sport, and you call it performance.”
“In every capitalist economy there are anti-capitalist movements, activists, and even political parties; in a way, that there are no longer anti-democratic movements, activists, and parties.”
“It is often said by reformers that government should be conducted upon business principles.”
“No great marketing decisions have ever been made on qualitative data”
“It was a dance of masks and every mask was perfect because every mask was a real face and every face was a real mask so there was no mask and there was no face for there was but one dance in which there was but one mask but one true face which was the same and which was a thing without a name which changed and changed into itself over and over.”
“I always used to say when I was on television that I prefer to be on stage and when on stage I prefer to do television. Typical human condition.”

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