Unky Dave

“The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border? ”
― Pablo Casals

“Yet no one seemed to have thought through the implications of a world in which everyone cheated. The other morning Keith had bought five hundred vanity sachets of Outrage, his staple perfume. At lunchtime he discovered that they all contained water, a substance not much less expensive than Outrage, but harder to sell. Keith was relieved that he had already unloaded half the consignment on Damian Noble in the Portobello Road. Then he held Damian's tenners up to the light: they were crude forgeries. He passed on the notes without much trouble, in return for twenty-four bottles of vodka which, it turned out, contained a misty, faintly scented liquid. Outrage!”
― Martin Amis, London Fields

“The modern emphasis on what is called 'clean fun' is really the symptom of a general unwillingness to touch upon any serious or controversial subject.”
― George Orwell

“There is something aesthetically pleasing about trading one engraving - and old map - for another - American money.”
― Sarah Vowell, The Partly Cloudy Patriot