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Benjamin Percy Quotes

The USDA labs in Ames, Iowa, are level-four security clearance. Every nasty thing you can imagine is stored there. Ground zero for the apocalypse. And there's a day care right across the street.

Benjamin Percy

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: March 28, 1979

Topics

Day Care You Security Street Right

Writing fiction is for me a fraught business, an occasion of daily dread for at least the first half of the novel, and sometimes all the way through. The work process is totally different from writing nonfiction. You have to sit down every day and make it up.

Joan Didion

Work Business Daily Day Me Writing

How can I be a folk? I'm from the suburbs you know.

John Fahey

You Know Suburbs How Folk

In real life, I don't fall in love with the guy who wines and dines me, I fall in love with the flaws and the humanity.

Rosemarie DeWitt

Life Love Me Humanity Fall Flaws

I don't seek discomfort. But, very often, you realise that what you fear is actually quite ephemeral; something's different, something's unfamiliar; therefore, it must be worse.

Michael Palin

Fear You Discomfort Seek Something

The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Minna Antrim

Life Drama Begins Sigh Ends Wail

The silhouette is the most important thing in clothes. Every French girl knows that. High-waisted trousers give you long legs and a pretty bum which, after all, is what we all want.

Lou Doillon

Girl Clothes Long You Important

If Bronze Bomber got loose in the streets, it won't be something nice.

Deontay Wilder

Nice Streets Something Got Bronze

An animal experiment cannot be justifiable unless the experiment is so important that the use of a brain-damaged human would be justifiable.

Peter Singer

Animal Important Human Experiment

The target of preventive war must have several characteristics. It must be virtually defenceless; it must be important enough to be worth the trouble; it must be possible to portray it as the ultimate evil and an imminent threat to our survival.

Noam Chomsky

War Evil Enough Survival Worth Must

We have to find our own purposes in life, which are not derived directly from our scientific history.

Richard Dawkins

Life History Find Own Our Which

Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.

Guy de Maupassant

Patriotism Religion Egg Kind Wars

Be content to remember that those who can make omelettes properly can do nothing else.

Hilaire Belloc

Remember Nothing Content Make Who