"You live surrounded by the claims of other people: to your labor when they call it peace, to your life when they call it war; to your celibacy when they call you a bachelor, your body when they call you a husband. They tell you where you shall live, what you shall do, and what thoughts are dangerous. Does not some modern Frenchman, exhausted by it all and very naturally, say 'Hell is other people'?" Robert Aickman "The View".
"People who read poetry are the unsung customer base for independent bookstores: they are avid readers, they love books as physical objects, they will religiously attend author readings, they read books on a variety of subjects, and they buy more books annually than anyone else I know. By catering to the type of person who reads poetry, these successful bookstores have perhaps unwittingly remained focused on what devoted patrons of bookstores really value: variety over homogeneity, literature over media, humanity over technology, and community over price. "
Janaka Stucky "How to survive in the age of Amazon"
––– "Не плыви по течению, не плыви против течения, плыви туда, куда тебе нужно." Козьма Прутков
The first time someone calls you a horse you punch him on the nose, the second time someone calls you a horse you call him a jerk but the third time someone calls you a horse, well then perhaps it's time to go shopping for a saddle. Lucky Number Slevin.
"Michael, silicon chip circuitry is pretty to me. Two hundred miles on a gallon of gas is pretty to me. I am not programmed to react to a girl's smile. You, on the other hand, is programmed to react to nothing else."
K.I.T.T (Knight Rider)
––– "Не плыви по течению, не плыви против течения, плыви туда, куда тебе нужно." Козьма Прутков
MN - Look, you just saved my skin. Whether you like it or not, we are after the same thing here. So why don't we pool our resources? DD - No, I work alone. MN - Me too, but I don't make a religion out of it!
Knight Rider
––– "Не плыви по течению, не плыви против течения, плыви туда, куда тебе нужно." Козьма Прутков
Of one other I must speak, one dragged into that conflict and intrigue only by his loyalty to me. To the end of my days, I will bear the scars he gave me. His worn teeth sank deeply into my hand several times before he managed to drag me from that pool. How he did it, I wil never know. But his head still rested on my chest when they found us; his mortal bonds to this world had broken. Nosy was dead. I believe he gave his life freely, recalling that we had been good to one another when we were puppies. Men cannot grieve as dogs do. But we grieve for many years. - Robin Hobb, Assassin's apprentice
"- Oh, it's simple pragmatism, Dad. It's called the real world. If we refused to do business with morally questionable, the deal volume would drop in half and the good guys like us would end up poor. Then where would we all be? - On a nice dry spit of land known as the moral high ground? - suggested the Major."
Helen Simonson "Major Pettigrew's Last Stand"
––– "Не плыви по течению, не плыви против течения, плыви туда, куда тебе нужно." Козьма Прутков
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