overheard quote of the day

Ah! Don’t you just love to wake up to the smell of sawdust and a hint of burnt, accompanied by a symphony orchestra of electrical tools and a hammer? The hammer is so quintessentially human that it is impossible not to feel alive!

This morning, on my way to work

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“and, yes, i wanted to tell that i profoundly believe in free trade”

“ok, stop thanks, i don’t need any confession …”

AR to an overexcitedand overnervous student of his who wanted to get a reccomandation letter.

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“7+!?! how could have that been a 7+!?” 

“well, darling, that was an encouragement..”

or : how can the same grade be considered too little and too generous at the same time

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yeah, it must be like this….the phd is like the magister, you take it before the master..it is far less than the master, it is only three years. yes, yes, i am sure, it is like what you have in italy, the ..  no, wait a second, i am not sure any more, but for sure it is far less than the master.

friedhemsplan-thorildsplan, on the tube in front of me, a He talking with a She, obviosuly quite oblivious of the fact that i was eavesdropping.

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it is time that i take my life in my hands.

from the seat next to me, on the sofa

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“Perhaps my signature is not as good as it once was, it gets cloudy and crooked. I am 75 years old.”

Gerald Anderson, St. Paul

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if you date a hockey player, raise glasses. if you don’t, raise your standards.

Hovet arena, Djurgården -Brynäs, 24/01/2009

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(to be read aloud)

“everyone knows she is the Italian Kant”

coffee room, dept economics

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“mi vo’ vanti” (I keep going)

calle del carbone, Venice

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(tentative) “if you feel like breaking up for a matter of principles…”

(sharp, allegro ma non troppo) “yes i do”

overheard from the room next to mine.