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• People die when curiosity goes.
• If you can't stand your own company alone in a room for long hours, or, when it gets tough, the feeling of…
• When anything goes digital, let alone something as immaterial as a book, there is a tendency to see it as just in…
• What we wish upon the future is very often the image of some lost, imagined past.
• Realism; fatalism; phlegm. To live in the Fens is to receive strong doses of reality. The great flat monotony of reality; the…
• When people aren't expecting to be seen, they look their truest.
• There’s this thing called progress. But it doesn’t progress. It doesn’t go anywhere. Because as progress progresses the world can slip away.…
• What does education do, what does it have to offer, when deprived of its necessary partner, the future, and face instead with…
• I am struck by the way people behave on the Tube. They look at each other beadily and inquisitively, and something goes…
• Structure that really pays off is all based on emotion. I don't write down an elaborate plan. It's really done by feel.…
• I like the world we've got. If there is anything special and magical, I have to find it in the ordinary stuff.
• I can do hieroglyphics in the margin. There are days when I really enjoy the flow of ink. I mean, nice pen,…

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