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"I was still wearing my shoes. The staff was paid to wash the sheets after every visit, and by the point we left the field, I’d dressed and undressed so many times in the course of decontamination that I never wanted to remove my clothes again. I’d just wear them until they dissolved, and then spend the rest of my life naked."
"The muse in charge of fantasy wears good, sensible shoes. No foam-born Aphrodite, she vaguely resembles my old piano teacher, who was keen on metronomes."
"We are the great grassroots campaign of the modern era, built from mousepads, shoe leather and hope."
"Children are like TV sets. When they start acting weird, whack them across the head with a big rubber basketball shoe."
