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“engineer is a man who can do for ten shillings what any fool can do for a pound;”
― Slide Rule
― Slide Rule
“The zipper displaces the button and a man lacks just that much time to think while dressing at dawn, a philosophical hour, and thus a melancholy hour.”
― Fahrenheit 451
― Fahrenheit 451
“She hurries out of the hammering rain into the puddled shelter of St Pancras. As arranged, he's waiting outside WH Smith, and her heart jerks like a bad dog on a lead.”
― A Particular Man
― A Particular Man
“I been silent so long now it’s gonna roar out of me like floodwaters and you think the guy telling this is ranting and raving my God; you think this is too horrible to have really happened, this is too awful to be the truth! But, please. It’s still hard for me to have a clear mind thinking on it. But it’s the truth even if it didn’t happen.”
― One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
― One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
“When I arrived in London, although I could manage to read a lot—Nineteen Eighty-four was one of the first books I devoured, marveling constantly at how aptly Orwell’s description fitted Mao’s China—the idiomatic use of English was beyond me.”
― Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
― Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
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