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The Special Operations Network was instigated to handle policing duties considered either too unusual or too specialized to be tackled by the regular force. There were thirty departments in all, starting at the more mundane Neighborly Disputes (SO-30) and going onto Literary Detectives (SO-27) and Art Crime (SO-24). Anything below SO-20 was restricted information, although it was common knowledge that the ChronoGuard was SO-12 and Antiterrorism SO-9. It is rumored that SO-1 was the department that polices the SpecOps themselves. Quite what the others do is anyone's guess. What is known is that the individual operatives themselves are mostly ex-military or ex-police and slightly unbalanced. 'If you want to be a SpecOp,' the saying goes, 'act kinda weird... ↗


— Jasper Fforde


#art #crime #detectives #literary #military

To yield to Resistance deforms our spirit. It stunts us and makes us less than we are and were born to be. ↗


— Steven Pressfield


#meant-to-be #purpose #resistance #soul #spirit

Blaise decided that the thing he would remember most about this London was the sour stink of it. The overripe foulness of the streets made him gag, and when a woman emptied a chamber pot from a top window, nearly catching him in its spray, he bent over and wretched, much to the Nightsneaks' amusement. ↗


— Teresa Flavin


#history #london #middle-grade-fantasy #art

We are all in this together. Our happiness inextricably is tied to that of all beings. ↗


— Allan Lokos


#meditation #psychology #shantideva #art

Por aquellos años su padre comprendía que un pueblo podía cambiar su "modo de vida", su historia, su tecnología, su cultura, su arte y su literatura, pero no le concedía la menor posibilidad de que cambiara sus gestos. ↗


— Orhan Pamuk


#pueblos #art

Trust me when I tell you the zebra is real! Somewhere, the zebra is dancing. ↗


— The Art of Racing in the Rain


#art

I also believe in cigarettes, cholesterol, alcohol, carbon monoxide, masturbation, the Arts Council, nuclear weapons, the Daily Telegraph, and not properly labeling fatal poisons, but above all else, most of all, I believe in the one thing that can come out of people's mouths: vomit. ↗


— Dennis Potter


#misanthropy #art

You desire me. I can scent it on the wind.” He drew in a breath and licked his lips. “I have been waiting for your courage to bring you to me, but I have grown tired of our little game. ↗


— Stella Berkley


#fantasy #shifter #courage

I couldn't hit an elephant's ass with a bull fiddle. ↗


— Babe Didrikson Zaharias


#bull #elephant #fiddle #hit #i

No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude. ↗


— Karl Popper


#argument #attitude #does #effect #man






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