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“In your name, the family name is at last because it's the family name that lasts.”

“Some of us can live without a society but not without a family.”

“In united families, they might sleep with half filled stomach but no one sleeps with empty stomach.”

“You can take the Indian out of the family, but you cannot take the family out of the Indian.”

“My ship – the Demeter, was a star-liner operated by the Red Star Line. I say ‘was’ because of the events you will read about in this account. This is a long letter, I know, but I had quite a long time to write it. You probably already know this, having seen the commercials running on all the major channels for the last twenty years or so, but the Red Star Line is the largest cruise operator in the known universe. Unless something has changed between now and by the time you read this, this is probably still true. In fact, customers of the Red Star Line get more quality, value for money – and smiles by Demeter than they do anywhere else. Okay, okay. It’s an old joke – corny for sure, but what the hell.”

“When I was instructed to use medical oxygen to do my job at the W. M. Keck Observatory from 2001 to 2006, I was never told about the legal health information that is now posted on oxygen cylinders. My memories of the green medical oxygen cylinders that we would use daily is that they had no information on them and we were never given a recognised legal oxygen administration training course for routine daily use or a medical prescription from a doctor. We were shown the three oxygen cylinders at the facility and told to use them whenever we developed headaches, which was multiple times daily. It was common to find all three oxygen cylinders in use by other very high altitude workers and to have to line up to get a turn on the magical medical gas.”

“Before We Begin Is Your Bug A nice clean original car that looks almost like it left the showroom yesterday? P.S. All work should be carried out in consultation with a reliable workshop manual with regard to torque settings, gaps, procedures, sequences disassembly, reassembly, where to hide the leftover parts, etc. I will accept no responsibility for anything resulting from you or anybody else trying anything as described in this document whatsoever – but if it works or you end up with some amusing stories to tell someone else’s grandchildren, please feel free to drop me a line. (No death threats please.) Sincerely, Christina Engela”

“If in poetry court she was called to testify on matters where I was condemned to imprisonment: parking my ego at a broken meter, line violations, forced rhyme, dealing stanzaics to children, shooting off my mouth, getting cute, for even this latest attempt at verse, she would tell the whole truth, she would admit from the pit of her unsung brilliance, from all of the paintings and poems she herself has been making and storing in the vast empire of her singing soul, your Honor, my daughter is guilty of plagiarizing my cells.”

“Porque, não importa o que diga, a linha sobre a qual caminhava, de recta que talvez fosse, tinha passado a curva desde que me viu, e eu apercebi-me do momento exacto em que me viu pelo momento exacto em que o seu caminho se tornou curvo, e não uma curva que o afastasse de mim, mas uma curva para vir ter comigo, senão nunca nos teríamos encontrado, mas teria antes afastado ainda mais de mim, porque você estava à andar à velocidade de alguém que caminha de um ponto para outro; e eu nunca o teria apanhado porque eu só caminho lentamente, calmamente, quase imóvel, com o passo de alguém que não vai de um ponto para o outro mas que, num lugar imutável, espreita quem passa à sua frente e espera que modifique ligeiramente o seu percurso. E se eu digo que fez uma curva, e como sem dúvida há-de dizer que era um desvio para me evitar, ao que eu afirmarei, em resposta, que foi um movimento para se aproximar, sem dúvida que isso é assim porque no fim de contas você não se desviou, que qualquer linha recta só existe em relação a um plano, que nós nos movemos segundo dois planos distintos, e que no fim de contas só existe o facto que você olhou para mim e que eu interceptei esse olhar ou o inverso, e que, à partida, de absoluta que era, a linha segundo a qual você se movia tornou-se relativa e complexa, nem recta nem curva, mas fatal.”