“In small towns, news travels at the speed of boredom.”

“A town is a thing like a colonial animal. A town has a nervous system and a head and shoulders and feet. A town is a thing separate from all other towns alike. And a town has a whole emotion. How news travels through a town is a mystery not easily to be solved. News seems to move faster than small boys can scramble and dart to tell it, faster than women can call it over the fences.”

“Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.”

“I have always regarded as a stroke of good fortune that I was not born or brought up in a small American town; they may be the backbone of the nation, but they are also the backbone of ignorance, bigotry, and boredom, all in vast quantities.”

“Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow`s speed.”

“I travel light. But not at the same speed.
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