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"As much as I enjoy Carl Hiaasen's often-snarky Florida novels, this compilation of his Miami Herald columns is splendid. And I'm reading it for a second time." — Feb 27, 2014 07:34AM
"As much as I enjoy Carl Hiaasen's often-snarky Florida novels, this compilation of his Miami Herald columns is splendid. And I'm reading it for a second time." — Feb 27, 2014 07:34AM
“Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.”
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“I first became fascinated with the Sears catalogue because all the people in its pages were perfect. Nearly everybody I knew had something missing, a finger cut off, a toe split, an ear half-chewed away, an eye clouded with blindness from a glancing fence staple. And if they didn't have something missing, they were carrying scars from barbed wire, or knives, or fishhooks. But the people in the catalogue had no such hurts. They were not only whole, had all their arms and legs and eyes on their unscarred bodies, but they were also beautiful.”
― A Childhood: The Biography of a Place
― A Childhood: The Biography of a Place
“There are three classes of people: Those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see.” – Leonardo da Vinci”
― Inside Cuba Artistic Confessions
― Inside Cuba Artistic Confessions
“I think that anti-Jewish prejudice is an unfailing sign of a sick and disordered person ... It's a horrible, conspiratorial, pseudo-intellectual, mean spirited, eventually lethal piece of bigotry.”
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“The icon receded, and the word “PASSWORD” came up front, bold and center, with a blinking space to fill. Jayce reached again for his ear, but caught himself. He moved his fingers, entering “p.a.s.s.w.o.r.d.” into the space. “ACCESS DENIED,” it read. Hmmm.”
― Jayce
― Jayce
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