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Veto is like if you make big sandwich - careful and nice you make it - and I come over and eat sandwich. No question asked. This is how veto works. — Tom Rachman

I hadn't been a particularly precocious reader, but everybody else in my family was. — Tom Rachman

The Internet is to news," he said, "what car horns are to music. — Tom Rachman

Journalism is a bunch of dorks pretending to be alpha males. — Tom Rachman

Don't people drown their sorrows in things like scotch? Not strawberry whatever-it's-called. — Tom Rachman

Books increase by rule of compound interest: one interest leads to another interest, and this compounds into third. — Tom Rachman

If history has taught us anything, Arthur muses, it is that men with mustaches must never achieve positions of power. — Tom Rachman

Anything that's worth anything is complicated. — Tom Rachman

Unlike in books, there was no concluding page on the Internet, just a limitless chain that left her tired, tense, up too late. — Tom Rachman

News' is often a polite way of saying 'editor's whim. — Tom Rachman

The training of a journalist, of working with words for thousands of hours, is extraordinarily useful for a fiction writer. — Tom Rachman

Nothing epitomizes the futility of human striving quite like aspartame. — Tom Rachman

He was a man who formed opinions as he spoke them, or perhaps afterward, requiring him to ramble at length to grasp what he believed. — Tom Rachman

As touchy as cabaret performers and as stubborn as factory machinists ... — Tom Rachman

My own career started in New York at the 'Associated Press', a fast-paced news agency where we rarely had time for deep reporting. — Tom Rachman

She doesn't remember the twentieth century. Isn't that terrifying? — Tom Rachman

My parents used to rent old movies - my whole childhood is in black and white - and it was my dream to make films. — Tom Rachman

Art doesn't spring from the muses alone, but from hard work. — Tom Rachman

People, it turns out, aren't a product of their own time. They're a product of the time before theirs — Tom Rachman

There's a line from Heraclitus: No man steps in the same river twice, for it is not the same river and he is not the same man. — Tom Rachman

She hasn't known many Southerners. That twang and aw-shucks about him
it's sort of exotic. — Tom Rachman

The strength of fiction is not in reading about yourself, but in reading about other people. — Tom Rachman

Remembering is the most overrated thing. Forgetting is far superior. — Tom Rachman

She has been dreading tomorrow ever since it happened the first time. — Tom Rachman

Vodka is like water, but with consequences. — Tom Rachman

As for Humphrey, he was never renowned for tidiness. "My nature abhors the vacuum," he said. — Tom Rachman

When, she wonders, do people have time to contemplate anything? But she has no time to answer that. — Tom Rachman

When I left Toronto and entered journalism in the late 1990s, I had many notions about the news business, nearly all of them wrong, as it turned out. — Tom Rachman

Did she answer my email yet?' That's the new obesity. — Tom Rachman

She is a wonderful nerd, and he hopes this won't change. — Tom Rachman

What is wrong with guys? Half are molting; half are nothing but undergrowth. — Tom Rachman

Nothing, not even dictionaries, can tell you what anything means," he said. "The reality of things is just sad, for the most part. — Tom Rachman

So why do you kiss someone?" she asks. "To give pleasure or to take it? — Tom Rachman

Good reporting and good behavior are mutually exclusive. — Tom Rachman

In teen years, people yearned to be liked; in their twenties, to be impressive; in their thirties, to be needed — Tom Rachman

That's a paradox I've noticed, too: The news business held little romance for me, yet writing about it somehow stirred my affections. — Tom Rachman

The only death we experience is that of other people — Tom Rachman

One becomes more of a shit as one gets older. — Tom Rachman

What the art world has done, it has been constantly been pushing the boundaries about what art can be. It's like expanding its territory. — Tom Rachman

Venn was like a devilish older sibling, offering that brotherly combination of wholly unreliable and utterly trustworthy. — Tom Rachman