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• The truth is that even big collections of ordinary books distort space, as can readily be proved by anyone who has been around a really old-fashioned secondhand bookshop, one that looks as though they were designed by M. Escher on a bad day and has more stairways than storeys and those rows of shelves which end in little doors that are surely too small for a full-sized human to enter. The relevant equation is: Knowledge = power = energy = matter = mass; a good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.

  Terry Pratchett

  Truth, Book, Bad Day

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• Granny was an old-fashioned witch. She didn’t do good for people, she did right by them.

  Terry Pratchett

  People, Witch, Granny

  Terry Pratchett (2012). “A Blink of the Screen: Collected Short Fiction”, p.235, Random House

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• I've come to see our central nervous system as a kind of vintage switchboard, all thick foam wires and old-fashioned plugs. The circuitry isn't properly equipped; after a surplus of emotional information the system overloads, the circuit breaks, the board runs dark. That's what shock is.

  Darin Strauss

  Running, Dark, Emotional

  Darin Strauss (2011). “Half a Life: A Memoir”, p.14, Random House

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• Life," Garp wrote, "is sadly not structured like a good old-fashioned novel. Instead an end occurs when those who are meant to peter out have petered out. All that is left is memory. But even a nihilist has memory.

  John Irving

  Memories, Nihilist, Ends

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• I'm old-fashioned beyond my years.

  Muriel Spark

  Years

  Muriel Spark (2015). “Not to Disturb”, p.21, Canongate Books

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• I tell you, the old-fashioned doctor who treated all diseases has completely disappeared, now there are only specialists, and they advertise all the time in the newspapers. If your nose hurts, they send you to Paris: there's a European specialist there, he treats noses. You go to Paris, he examines your nose: I can treat only your right nostril, he says, I don't treat left nostrils, it's not my specialty, but after me, go to Vienna, there's a separate specialist there who will finish treating your left nostril.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Hurt, Doctors, Paris

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• We'll all go out together when we go. Yes, we'll all go out together when we go. Oh, how the world will die From great fire in the sky. Yes, we'll all go out together when we go." (Total) Call me old fashioned but I'll take 'She'll Be Coming 'Round the Mountain' any day.

  James Patterson

  Fire, Sky, Together

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• I found something" Simon said as he walked in. He whipped out an old-fashioned key from his pocket and grinned at me. "It was taped to the back of my dresser drawer. What do you think? Buried treasure? Secret passageway? Locked room where they keep crazy old Aunt Edna?" "It probaly unlocks another dresser," Tori said. "One they threw out fifty years ago." "Its tragic, being born without an imagination. Do they hold telethons for that?

  Kelley Armstrong

  Crazy, Aunt, Thinking

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• But the trouble with sainthood these days is the robe-and-halo imagery that gets stuck onto it." Carl got that brooding look again. "People forget that robes were street clothes once... and still are, in a lot of places. And halos are to that fierce air of innocence what speech balloons in comics are to the sound of the voice itself. Shorthand. But most people just see an old symbol and don't bother looking behind it for the meaning. Sainthood starts to look old-fashioned, unattainable... even repellent. Actually, you can see it all around, once you learn to spot it.

  Diane Duane

  Voice, Clothes, Air

  Diane Duane (2003). “A Wizard Alone”, p.234, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In matters of religion a skeptical mind is not a higher manifestation of virtue than is a believing heart, and analytical deconstruction in the field of, say, literary fiction can be just plain old-fashioned destruction when transferred to families yearning for faith at home.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Believe, Home, Heart

  "A Prayer for the Children". Speech at General Cnference, www.lds.org. April, 2003.

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• For the past few years, I've been on a quest for a good old-fashioned date, the kind where the guy calls, makes the plans, picks you up in a car that's not his dad's or his other girlfriend's, and takes you somewhere that shows he put thought into what you might like, not what he might get off on like the latest how-many-naked-boobs-can-we-cram-into-this-movie-to-disguise-the-complete-lack-of-plot movie. I'm looking for the kind of date that starts with good conversation , has a sweet and satisfying middle, and ends with long, slow kisses and the dreamy feeling that you're walking on clouds.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Sweet, Girlfriend, Dad

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.243, Dell

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• Body armor. Four thousand pounds of body armor. And missile-proof glass? Nice. What had happened to good old-fashioned bulletproof?

  Stephenie Meyer

  Nice, Glasses, Pounds

  Stephenie Meyer (2008). “Eclipse”, Little Brown & Company

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• For this quiet, unprepossessing, passive man who has no garden in front of his subsidised flat, books are like flowers. He loves to line them up on the shelf in multicoloured rows: he watches over each of them with an old-fashioned gardener's delight, holds them like fragile objects in his thin, bloodless hands.

  Stefan Zweig

  Flower, Book, Men

  Stefan Zweig (2009). “The Post Office Girl”, Sort of

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• The fake slap invariably makes contact, adding the elements of shock and betrayal to what had previously been plain old-fashioned fear.

  David Sedaris

  Betrayal, Fake, Elements

  "Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim". Book by David Sedaris, June 1, 2004.

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• Then I reckon we got ourselves a good old-fashioned standoff." ... Nobody moved, or said anything, for the next few moments. "Old-fashioned standoffs are mighty borin

  Derek Landy

  Next, Moments, Said

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• Hale." Kat sighed. "The headmaster's car? Really? That's not to cliched for you?" What can I say?" He shrugged. "I'm an old-fashioned guy. Besides, it's a classic for a reason." He leaned against the window. "It's good to see you, Kat." Kat didn't know what to say. It's good to see you, too? Thanks for getting me kicked out? Is it possible you've gotten even hotter? I think I might have missed you?

  Ally Carter

  Thinking, Car, Guy

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• But to do its noticing and judging, poetry balances itself on the pinprick of the moment. Slowing down, stopping yourself completely, to read and understand a poem is like trying to acquire an old-fashioned skill.

  Ian Mcewan

  Skills, Judging, Balance

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• Long-term, we must begin to build our internal strengths. It isn't just skills like computer technology. It's the old-fashioned basics of self-reliance, self-motivation, self-reinforcement, self-discipline, self-command.

  Steven Pressfield

  Motivation, Technology, Self

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• Being unprepared makes me nervous. I'm old-fashioned show folk.

  John C. Reilly

  Nervous, Shows, Folks

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• When I write, I'm still imagining a kid reading it on paper. I read e-books when I travel, but in general I still prefer holding an old-fashioned book in my hands. There's a special, tactile experience.

  Rick Riordan

  Book, Reading, Writing

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• Sure, jets are fast and economical, but, oh my, what fun we've lost and what leisure we've sacrificed in the race to efficiency. Somehow, stepping onto a plane and zooming across the United States in a matter of hours doesn't hold a candle to the dear, old-fashioned train ride.

  Ginger Rogers

  Fun, Race, United States

  Ginger Rogers (1991). “Gineger My Story”

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• We're living in what I like to call the 'Thank You Economy,' because only the companies that can figure out how to mind their manners in a very old-fashioned way - and do it authentically - are going to have a prayer of competing.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Thank You, Prayer, Educational

  Gary Vaynerchuk (2011). “The Thank You Economy (Enhanced Edition)”, p.27, Harper Collins

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• I like to talk to people. I've got one assistant, one Blackberry. That's my overhead. I don't text that much or email. I like to sit down face-to-face and have a conversation with you. I'm old-fashioned.

  Mark Wahlberg

  People, Assistants, Faces

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The Germany I was enthused with was more old fashioned and kind of romantic. I just got there, and the next thing you know, I had this huge gilded album. It was kind of an amazing experience because I didn't intend it to be that way.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Germany, Albums, Way

  "Operatic Pop Singer Rufus Wainwright in Concert". The NPR.org Interview, www.npr.org. June 9, 2007.

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• The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible.

  Alan Watts

  Ideas, World, Incredibles

  Alan Watts (1977). “The essence of Alan Watts”, Celestial Arts Publishing Company

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