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The stories in Dawn Raffel's astonishing Further Adventures in the Restless Universe as as sharp and bright as stars.

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• All reactionaries are paper tigers.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Paper
  • Tigers

• Whenever I'm in Des Moines, I always make a trip to Manhattan Deli for a sandwich. I spent a lot of time there when I was going to college at Drake, so it's usually my one 'go-to' food stop when I'm in town.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Time
  • Food
  • Stop

• English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.

  

  Rachel Johnson
  • People
  • Believe
  • English

• Having money has given me a certain freedom, but being in the public eye has taken away a lot.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • Money
  • Freedom
  • Taken

• As soon as you get over caring what people think, you can have a nice time.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • People
  • Time
  • Nice

• It's not like I go out there to be a sex symbol. I mean, it's nice of course - but embarrassing.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Nice
  • Mean
  • Sex

• The last paragraph, in which you tell what the story is about, is almost always best left out.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • You
  • Best
  • Story

• I'm a Sikh; it's part of my religious tradition to never cut my hair and keep it wrapped in a turban.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Religious
  • Hair
  • Never

• With 'The Social Network,' I got into it at first because frankly I thought there was a cool courtroom drama to be had with the intellectual properties. And then what further drew me in was that the most extraordinary social networking device ever created was created by the world's most antisocial person. I liked that story.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • World
  • Cool
  • Drama

• My wife attends a Presbyterian church.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Wife
  • Church
  • Presbyterian

• I'm an ordinary Tasmanian like everybody else, and I have weight issues; I have issues around finding the time to do the exercise and things, but in my role as Health Minister, and in my role as myself as well, I have to look after my own health.

  

  Lara Giddings
  • Time
  • Health
  • Myself

• Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' children.

  

  Sam Levenson
  • Children
  • Child
  • Beast

• As a child or young adult going through an illness, it can be stressful at times and boring and extremely alienating.

  

  Vanessa Bayer
  • Child
  • Young
  • Illness

• My father is very dry and very quick-witted, and my mother is very silly. It was the perfect combination because I got an education in physical and verbal comedy.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Education

• The most luxurious possession, the richest treasure anybody has, is his personal dignity.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Personal
  • Dignity
  • Treasure

• My family wasn't particularly political. Mom and Dad voted, but that was the extent of their involvement. In fact, I ended up going to U.C. Davis because, to them, Berkeley was too radical.

  

  Jackie Speier
  • Up
  • Family
  • Political

• I'm not good at telling a joke, but I can say a line in a certain way that makes people uncomfortable because they don't know whether to laugh or not, and I love that comedy.

  

  Walton Goggins
  • People
  • Good
  • Love

• One lesson that every nation can learn from China is to focus more on creating village-level enterprises, quality health services and educational facilities.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Health
  • Focus
  • Quality

• I don't say in the morning, 'Look, Leandra, here are a bunch of women. Put that bronzer down.' It's more that I'm busy and whatever helps you get out the door and go to sleep easier.

  

  Leandra Medine
  • Women
  • Morning
  • Sleep

• Everybody is saying, they can't do this, they can't do that. I was happy for those guys to come out and play well.

  

  Eddie Charles Jones
  • Happy
  • Play
  • Everybody

• Life is extraordinarily suave and sweet with certain natural, witty, affectionate people who have unusual distinction and are capable of every vice, but who make a display of none in public and about whom no one can affirm they have a single one. There is something supple and secret about them. Besides, their perversity gives spice to their most innocent occupations, such as taking a walk in the garden at night.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Secret
  • Public
  • Life is

• If you want to change the world, go home and love your family.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Change The World

• I've never been without a dog. I've made trips across the country with a dog. I've been in that angst of loneliness, where you're really alone in the universe, except for the dog.

  

  William Shatner
  • Country
  • Universe
  • Dog

• The stories in Dawn Raffel's astonishing Further Adventures in the Restless Universe as as sharp and bright as stars.

  

  Elissa Schappell
  • Universe
  • Stories
  • Stars