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“I'm an occasional drinker, the kind of guy who goes out for a beer and wakes up in Singapore with a full beard.”
― Philip Marlowe's Guide to Life
― Philip Marlowe's Guide to Life
“Libraries are brothels for the mind. Which means that librarians are the madams, greeting punters, understanding their strange tastes and needs, and pimping their books.”
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“Le Corbusier was the sort of relentlessly rational intellectual that only France loves wholeheartedly, the logician who flies higher and higher in ever-decreasing concentric circles until, with one last, utterly inevitable induction, he disappears up his own fundamental aperture and emerges in the fourth dimension as a needle-thin umber bird.”
― From Bauhaus to Our House
― From Bauhaus to Our House
“This is perhaps what has made some suspect that the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil was really a banana.”
― Jane Grigson's Fruit Book
― Jane Grigson's Fruit Book
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