Thom Strim

“It is a curious sensation, being a customer where you have been a slave's slave.”
― George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London

“I mean, who are we to think anything is impossible? We evolved from primates who couldn't imagine what lay before them. There was a time when the printing press was inconceivable, circumnavigating the globe unthinkable, the steam engine unimaginable. These massive impossibilities became possible, then probable, then commonplace. So why should we challenge the inevitability of the possible?”
― Mick Ebeling, Not Impossible: The Art and Joy of Doing What Couldn't Be Done

“I noticed how the attitude of women varies with a man's clothes. When a badly dressed man passes them they shudder away from him with a quite frank movement of disgust, as though he were a dead cat. Clothes are very powerful things.”
― George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London

“Dirt is a great respecter of persons; it lets you alone when you are well dressed, but as soon as your collar is gone it flies towards you from all directions.”
― George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London