"The light, the sky, the water, they were all things you looked through during the day. At night, they were things you looked into. You looked into the stars, you looked into dark rollers and the surprising platinum flash of their caps."

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Source : Adam Johnson (2012). “The Orphan Master's Son”, p.41, Random House

Adam Johnson

#Stars Quotes #Dark Quotes #Night Quotes

“I chose to deal with the science of cryptography. Cryptography began in mathematics. Codes were developed, even from Caesar's time, based on number theory and mathematical principles. I decided to use those principles and designed a work that is encoded.”
“Some strangers become more important to you than family, maybe because you're not expected to love them. You can leave them whenever you want to. They can, too. Every moment together is a choice.”
“You mustn't expect prime ministers to enjoy themselves. If they do, they mustn't show it - the population would be horrified”

Source : Interview, November 1976.
“I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.”

Source : "Jorge Luis Borges 112th birthday marked by Google Doodle", www.telegraph.co.uk. August 24, 2011.
“Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaosâ€¦ to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and stupendous dream.”
“faint heart never won fair lady”

Source : W. S. Gilbert, Ian C. Bradley (2016). “The Complete Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan”, p.505, Oxford University Press
“To survive there, you need the ambition of a Latin-American revolutionary, the ego of a grand opera tenor, and the physical stamina of a cow pony.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“A lot of EDM is not bad at all when it's simple, but a lot of it is not really musical. That's just what I really like to do: taking what I had at the beginning, which is classical and jazz influences, and putting it into electro.”

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