“We lose weeks like buttons, like pencils.”
Dave Eggers book A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Source: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
“Do not even flippantly badmouth anybody this week. Button it up.”
November 2, 2010.
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