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A lecture is an occasion when you numb one end to benefit the other.

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Disassemble the cells of a sponge (by passing them through a sieve, for instance), then dump them into a solution, and they will find their way back together and build themselves into a sponge again. You can do this to them over and over, and they will doggedly reassemble because, like you and me and every other living thing, they have one overwhelming impulse: to continue to be. Bill Bryson
(Talks about her childhood) I grew up on a Christmas tree farm in Reading, PA. It was the most magical fun childhood. We had grape arbours and we would make jam with my mom. My dad would go to work and he'd come home. He'd clean out stalls and fix split-row fences. Taylor Swift
A logical analysis of reflexive usages in French shows, however, that this simplicity is an illusion and that, so far from helping the foreigner, it is more calculated to bother him. Edward Sapir
It's almost sickening now that the regulators 'on the beat' while the biggest credit collapse in modern financial history unfolded are now patting themselves on the back for their 'brave' stance on short-selling! James Chanos
James Russell Lowell quote: "Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is..."
Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character. James Russell Lowell
Neil Gaiman quote: "We all not only could know everything. We do. We just tell..."
We all not only could know everything. We do. We just tell ourselves we don't to make it all bearable. Neil Gaiman
Happiness consists more in the small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life. Benjamin Franklin
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Pas a pas se va luenh. Kate Mosse
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I was very keen on people like Elvis, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Gene Vincent. Robin Trower
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Read not Milton, for he is dry; nor Shakespeare, for he wrote of common life. C. S. Calverley
You think you have some stable talent that will show no matter what you're writing, and if it doesn't seem to be getting across to the audience once, you can't imagine that moment when it suddenly will. Gradually, gradually you gain that confidence. Joan Didion
I am no longer afraid of becoming lost, because the journey back always reveals something new, and that is ultimately good for the artist. Billy Joel
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I love mixing amateurs and professionals. Lasse Hallstrom
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We might try our lives by a thousand simple tests; as, for instance, that the same sun which ripens my beans illumines at once a system ofearths like ours. If I had remembered this it would have prevented somemistakes. This was not the light in which I hoed them. The stars are theapexes of what wonderful triangles! What distant and different beings inthe various mansions of the universe are contemplating the same one atthe same moment! Henry David Thoreau