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People die when curiosity goes.
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If you can't stand your own company alone in a room for long hours, or, when it gets tough, the feeling of…
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When anything goes digital, let alone something as immaterial as a book, there is a tendency to see it as just in…
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What we wish upon the future is very often the image of some lost, imagined past.
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Realism; fatalism; phlegm. To live in the Fens is to receive strong doses of reality. The great flat monotony of reality; the…
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When people aren't expecting to be seen, they look their truest.
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There’s this thing called progress. But it doesn’t progress. It doesn’t go anywhere. Because as progress progresses the world can slip away.…
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What does education do, what does it have to offer, when deprived of its necessary partner, the future, and face instead with…
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I am struck by the way people behave on the Tube. They look at each other beadily and inquisitively, and something goes…
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Structure that really pays off is all based on emotion. I don't write down an elaborate plan. It's really done by feel.…
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I like the world we've got. If there is anything special and magical, I have to find it in the ordinary stuff.
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I can do hieroglyphics in the margin. There are days when I really enjoy the flow of ink. I mean, nice pen,…
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No sane man will dance.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Every sane man recognises that unlimited liberty is anarchy, or rather is nonentity. The civic idea of liberty is to give the…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The question is: what is a sane man to do in an insane society?
— Joseph Heller
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No sane man is unafraid in battle, but discipline produces in him a form of vicarious courage.
— George S. Patton
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Does any sane man imagine that the church could cease to be missionary and remain the church?
— Unknown Author
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Possibly he knew, as he wrote this, that he was mad - because inside every madman sits a little sane man saying…
— Graham Swift
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No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures; no ascetic can be considered reliably sane.
— Robert M. Parker, Jr.
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The sane man knows that he has a touch of the beast, a touch of the devil, a touch of the saint,…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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With an artist no sane man quarrels, any more than with the colour of a child's eyes.
— George Santayana
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Tell me what you will of the benefactions of city civilization, of the sweet security of streets-all as part of the natural…
— John Muir
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Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
— Carl Jung
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Am I afraid of high notes? Of course I am afraid. What sane man is not?
— Luciano Pavarotti
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