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“A blond headed, silly faced young man named Wilsher, whom he barely knew, was inviting him with a smile to a vacant place at his table. It was not safe to refuse. After having been recognised, he could not go and sit at the unattended girl. It was too noticeable. He sat down with a friendly smile. The silly blond face beamed into his. Winston had a hallucination of himself smashing a pick-axe right into the middle of it. The girls table filled up a few minutes later.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“Proper searching could stop drugs being carried through the gates. In the US and Sweden, where there was proper searching, I had discovered, the drug rates were far lower. But when I shared these suggestions with the ministry drugs team, they were wearily dismissive. 'If you stop drugs coming in one way they will come in another' they said. One said 'You don't want to be like your predecessors, fantasising about how to stop drugs coming in on drones.' My predecessor, it seemed, had suggested flying eagles at the drones.' Liz Truss had stood at the dispatch box and said 'I was at HMP Pentonville last week. They've got patrol dogs who are barking to deter drones.' This, I was told provoked an MP to shoat 'You are barking”
― Rory Stewart, Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

“That's the duty of the old," said the Liberian, "to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old.”
― Philip Pullman, The Golden Compass

“If I were asked my view, in a nutshell, of what animation is, I would say it is "what ever I want to create".”
― Hayao Miyazaki, Starting Point 1979-1996

“Friendship! Lifelong friends are important.
Energy! Morning jogs are nice.
Victory! I'd rather be a winner not a loser.
Take that advice to heart!”
― Tsugumi Ohba, Bakuman, Volume 8: Panty Shot and Savior

“I had a classmate who was very good at drawing. When ever he drew a face, he'd draw cross so that the eyes and the nose looked balanced. How cool! It had impact on me, and I've been drawing crosses on faces ever since.”
― Takeshi Obata, Bakuman, Volume 8: Panty Shot and Savior

“FIT GIRL,' said the hen. Misha and Phoebe stared at each other. They stared back at the hen again. 'BITCHES GONNA BITCH,' said the hen”
― Gideon Defoe, Elite Dangerous: Docking is Difficult

“Come to think of it, no other monsters have as many weakness as vampires. They can't walk in the sun, they can only get nutrients from blood, their sense of of smell is too strong, and they sink in water. Plus most frightening thing of all is their immortality.”
― BUN-O-FUJISAWA

“Like it or not, a caterpillar must first live as a chrysalis before becoming a butterfly. Maybe I remember those days because I am going through a chrysalis stage.”
― Isao Takahata

“It's a funny thing about life, once you begin to take note of the things you are grateful for, you begin to lose sight of the things that you lack.”
― Kent

“Keep your warm hearts, your gentleness, and your courage. These will do just as well as magic.”
― Mary Norton, Bedknob and Broomstick

“That's good new for me," I said. "But you just call it pizza like normal? It's grating."
"The parmmesan, you mean?"
I wanted to dump parmesan over her goofy head”
― Yoru Sumino, I Want to Eat Your Pancreas: Complete Collection

“I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.”
― Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

“Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.”
― J. Robert Oppenheimer

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

“Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car.”
― Garrison Keillor

“Cooking and baking is both physical and mental therapy.”
― Mary Berry