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“I’ve always been intimidated by gyms, have never been able to enjoy the towel-round-the-shoulder confidence of somebody who knows he can bench-press 250 pounds, or even knows what that means or how much 250 pounds weighs. I just know I don’t like lifting heavy things, especially since I had this wrist injury which stopped me playing tennis and which means that I’ve gone from being fit and thin-looking to just a feeble streak of unshouldered manhood whose only saving grace is that he doesn’t take up much space, who leaves plenty of room for others—especially now that I was several days into a quasi-hunger strike.”
― Geoff Dyer, Another Great Day at Sea: Life Aboard the USS George H.W. Bush

“Few now would associate de-roofing with the police, but the verb 'to detect' originated in detegere—a detective raises the roof, figuratively.”
― Lucy Sussex

“If you had met my father you would never, not for an instant, have thought he was an assassin.”
― Magda Szubanski, Reckoning: A Memoir

“This, in the end, is the prime purpose of a philosophy: to give us lucid ways to think about the world and how to live in it.”
― Daniel Klein