

“There is an art, it says, or rather, a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. â€� Clearly, it is this second part, the missing, which presents the difficulties.”
― Life, the Universe and Everything
― Life, the Universe and Everything

“The brain appears to possess a special area which we might call poetic memory and which records everything that charms or touches us, that makes our lives beautiful ... Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.”
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“During that war we had a word for extreme man-made disorder which was fubar, an acronym for 'fucked up beyond all recognition.' Well - the whole planet is now fubar with postwar miracles, but, back in the early 1960s, I was one of the first persons to be totally wrecked by one - an acrylic wall-paint whose colors, according to advertisements of the day, would '... outlive the smile on the "Mona Lisa".'
The name of the paint was Sateen Dura-Luxe. Mona Lisa is still smiling.”
― Bluebeard
The name of the paint was Sateen Dura-Luxe. Mona Lisa is still smiling.”
― Bluebeard
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