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Now journeys were not simple matters for Grace; nothing is simple if your mind is a fetch-and-carry wanderer from sliced perilous outer world to secret safe inner world; if when night comes your thought creeps out like a furred animal concealed in the dark, to fine, seize, and kill its food and drag it back to the secret house in the secret world, only to discover that the secret world has disappeared or has so enlarged that it's a public nightmare; if then strange beasts walk upside down like flies on the ceiling; crimson wings flap, the curtains fly; a sad man wearing a blue waistcoat with green buttons sits in the centre of the room, crying because he has swallowed the mirror and it hurts and he burps in flashes of glass and light; if crakes move and cry; the world is flipped, unrolled down in the vast marble stair; a stained threadbare carpet; the hollow silver dancing shoes, hunting-horns... ↗

— Janet Frame

#food

High office teaches decision making, not substance. It consumes intellectual capital; it does not create it. Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered; they learn how to make decisions but not what decisions to make. ↗

— Henry A. Kissinger

#consumes #create #decision #decision making #decisions

We're African-American and we work together as a family, so people assume we're like the Jacksons. But I didn't have parents using me to get out of a bad situation. ↗

— Beyonce Knowles

#assume #bad #bad situation #family #get

The summer of 1943 at Exeter was as happy a time as I ever had in my life. ↗

— John Knowles

#exeter #had #happy #i #life

I assume you know what to do with this. That's why you were hired. ↗

— Grant Tinker

#hired #i #know #were #why

The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#cruel #founded #greater #more #power

During one or two summers, as well as part-time during the school year, I worked for a small Canadian company which developed electrical instruments for military planes. ↗

— Walter Kohn

#company #developed #during #electrical #i

In particular, I established a reasonably accurate energy threshold for permanent displacement of a nucleus from its regular lattice position, substantially smaller than had been previously presumed. ↗

— Walter Kohn

#been #displacement #energy #established #had

A culture in which guilt is automatically assumed to be neurotic and unhealthy has devised a remarkably clever way of protecting its self-interest. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#automatically #clever #culture #devised #guilt

More than four thousand programs produced and consumed. Some of them were pretty good, a great many of them were forgettable; but a handful may even be worth a book. ↗

— Ted Koppel

#consumed #even #four #good #great