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I voluntarily inflicted a certain level of insanity on myself. ↗

— Jonathan Franzen

#certain level #i #inflicted #insanity #level

I was unwise enough to actually mention this in public a few times, and in fact to point out that there were two versions of the book now. One of them had somebody else's name on the cover, one had my name on the cover. ↗

— Jonathan Franzen

#book #cover #else #enough #fact

I recently watched Peter Brook's Lord of the Flies, and it wasn't a favorite film. Then I saw the one that was made in 1990, which in my opinion didn't match up to the original. ↗

— Brendan Fraser

#favorite #favorite film #film #flies #i

I wish I could have 25,000 years of my personal family history documented in a very powerful computer or a CD-ROM that I could just pop in and my computer would never crash. ↗

— Brendan Fraser

#computer #could #crash #documented #family

It's a beautiful thing, diving into the cool crisp water and then just sort of being able to pull your body through the water and the water opening up for you. ↗

— Dawn Fraser

#beautiful #beautiful thing #being #body #cool

Three years ago the Government announced the creation of Reconciliation Place, and said that it would include a memorial to those removed from their families. However, they refused to include any of those who were removed in the design of their own memorial. ↗

— Malcolm Fraser

#announced #any #creation #design #families

Yet there are thousands of Indigenous people searching for family members. ↗

— Malcolm Fraser

#family members #indigenous #indigenous people #members #people

Show Holmes a drop of water and he would deduce the existence of the Atlantic. Show it to me and I would look for a tap. That was the difference between us. ↗

— Anthony Horowitz

#deduction #genius #intelligence #mental-power #sherlock-holmes

You can create a good impression on yourself by being right, he realizes, but for creating a good impression on others there's nothing to beat being totally and catastrophically wrong. ↗

— Michael Frayn

#being #catastrophically #create #creating #good

America faces a new race that has awakened. ↗

— E. Franklin Frazier

#awakened #faces #new #race