I want things to be better all the time. And I tend to get angry about that. Books are an opportunity to vent.
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Nobody gets excited about the future at all, ever. The future is something we find depressing and worrisome.
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I once joked in a book that there are three things you can't do in life. You can't beat the phone company, you can't make a waiter see you until he is ready to see you, and you can't go home again.
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There are things you just can't do in life. You can't beat the phone company, you can't make a waiter see you until he's ready to see you, and you can't go home again.
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It is unthinkable to have a British countryside that doesn't have actual functioning farmers riding tractors, cows in fields, things like that.
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There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age.
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