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Apologies to Milan and Tokyo. Regrets to Stockholm and Paris. Forgive me, Eindhoven, Berlin, Barcelona and, most particularly, New York. But London is the design capital of the world.

Once the framework for the songs was finished, Olson personally hand-picked the rest of the band, selecting local musicians he admired. It was his decision to not include a guitarist because he reckons they’re “just embarrassing”.

I am the piece of shit you stepped in on your way to work. I am the vomit that hurls out of your mouth when you are sick.

Il guaio dell’albergo è che bisogna disfare la valigia, e ci si ritrova in un letto sconosciuto con i frivoli giornali e le riviste che abbiamo preso per viltà, per non restare soli.

People do not leave their homeland on their own free will – only poverty or a lover usually makes you leave so rapidly.

Malala Yousafzai

Four US companies – Amazon, Facebook, Google and Starbucks – have paid just £30m tax on sales of £3.1bn over the last four years, according to a Guardian analysis.

Seumas Milne

Hamilton, I know most publishers don’t go to their offices on Saturday mornings. Well, I do and I thought I should tell you that yours seems to have been on fire all night. Let me know if I can lend you some typewriters or anything. Goodbye.

Stanley Unwin

A woman once asked Mr. Cage, ‘’Have you an explanation of the symbolism involved in the death of the Buddha by eating a mushroom?'’ Mr. Cage thought: ‘’Mushrooms grow most vigorously in the fall, the period of destruction, and the function of many of them is to bring about the final decay of rotting material. In fact, as I read somewhere, the world would be an impassible heap of old rubbish were it not for mushrooms and their capacity to get rid of it. So I wrote to the lady in Philadephia. I said, ‘The function of mushrooms is to rid the world of old rubbish. The Buddha died a natural death.’ ‘’