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“I think I’m a very unobservant person, one who goes straight to concepts about people and ignores evidence to the contrary and the bric-a-brac surrounding that person. Stephen Spender said an amusing thing about Yeats—that he went for days on end without noticing anything, but then, about once a mon…”

— Christopher Isherwood, The Art of Fiction No. 49: An Interview by W.I. Scobie

“The French called this time of day “l’heure bleue.” To the English it was “the gloaming.” The very word “gloaming” reverberates, echoes—the gloaming, the glimmer, the glitter, the glisten, the glamour—carrying in its consonants the images of houses shuttering, gardens darkening, grass-lined rivers s…”

— Joan Didion, Blue Nights

“Travel offers a chrysalis for change like nothing else — it practically screams metamorphosis. Leave home and suddenly you can be anyone you want.”

— Lavinia Spalding, Writing Away

“Firstly, I guess you might save yourself a few KB.”

— Adam Silver, Maintainable CSS

“Reuse and DRY are such important principles in software engineering but when it comes to CSS, it ironically makes maintainance harder. Avoid trying to reuse style rules and gain the benefits of easy to maintain CSS.”

— Adam Silver, Maintainable CSS

“What if I really want to reuse a style? It is extremely rare, but there are times when it really does make sense to reuse a style. In this case use the comma in your selectors and place it in a well named file.”

— Adam Silver, Maintainable CSS

“Because visual class names don’t hold much meaning. Take red. Does this mean a red background? Does this mean red text? Does this mean a red gradient? What tint of red does this mean?”

— Adam Silver, Maintainable CSS

“Because reuse makes debugging more difficult.”

— Adam Silver, Maintainable CSS

“Don’t try and reuse styles. Adopt a duplication-first approach”

— Adam Silver, Maintainable CSS

“Semantic class names are a corner stone of MaintainableCSS. Without this, everything else makes little sense. So name something based on what it is and everything else follows.”

— Adam Silver, Maintainable CSS

“I always end up talking about the center without the slightest guarantee that I know what I’m saying, and I slip into the trap of geometry, that method we Occidentals use to try to regulate our lives: axis, center, raison d'être, Omphalos, nostalgic Indo-European names. Even this existence I sometim…”

— Julio Cortazar, Hopscotch

“You know that I do not believe in God. I do not care much about the mysteries of the universe, unless they come to me in words, or in music maybe, or in a set of colors, and then I entertain them merely for their beauty and only briefly. I do not even believe in Ireland. But you know, too, that in t…”

— Colm Toibin, One Minus One

“I find the best way to love someone is not to change them, but instead, help them reveal the greatest version of themselves.”

— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

“Where is this love? I can't see it, I can't touch it. I can't feel it. I can hear it. I can hear some words, but I can't do anything with your easy words.”

— Patrick Marber, Closer

“Missing someone, they say, is self-centered. I self-center you more than ever.”

— Saša Stanišić, How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone

“In my mind, the sexiest thing in the world is the feeling that you’re wanted.”

— Mindy Kaling, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

“The testers said 'this is too difficult', I made it even more difficult.”

— Tomonobu Itagaki, Team Ninja Interview: Tomonobu Itagaki

“For Viewtiful Joe, we brought in some kids to a focus test and asked them, "What do you think of the characters?" And all the kids said, "Oh, his head's too big," or "Silvia's annoying, I just want to kill her." They were just trashing the game, so I just got pissed off and said I'm not changing any…”

— Hideki Kamiya, Hideki Kamiya Revealed

“There are an infinite number of universes and clubbing isn’t fun in any of them”

— Benedict Smith, Tumblr

“Over, I'm so over you The way that you look in a three-piece suit Over, I'm so over you The way that you held me when nobody else would”

— Ingrid Michaelson, Over You