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We estimate that there are perhaps 20,000 prehistoric hunter-gatherers frozen up in those glaciers. Now, if they simply thaw and wander around,…
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For a long time, I would write without music, because I thought it was distracting until I appreciated that it actually unlocks…
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This is one of the defining sorrows of books: that we cannot see one another.
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This is not to say there are not Chicagoans. But I would suggest that they are a nomadic people, whose lost home…
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Tonally, there was no discussion; I just don’t know any other way to do it. I don’t want to make people feel…
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Truth may be stranger than fiction, goes the old saw, but it is never as strange as lies.
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Specificity is the soul of narrative.
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I think there are very few invisible musical instrument players out there who can claim the chops and sheer perseverance of Björn…
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Even in my own life, there are memories I have that are difficult to explain - happenings that are so odd and…
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There is no ritual that enhances creativity other than just starting.
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As a freelance writer, I'd be asked to become an expert for various magazines on any subject, whether food or wine or…
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Comics have a problem, and that is continuity - the obsession with placing the characters in an existing world, where every event…
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The history of men of science has one peculiar advantage, as it shows the importance of little things in producing great results.…
— Robert Aris Willmott
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The Bible without the Holy Spirit is a sundial by moonlight.
— Dwight L. Moody
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She was so ugly that her face could stop a sundial.
— Rodney Dangerfield
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If America is to be run by the people, it is the people who must think. And we do not need to…
— Herbert Hoover
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Like the sundial, my paint box counts no hours but sunny ones.
— Arthur Rackham
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Lord, it is time. The summer was very big. Lay thy shadow on the sundials, and on the meadows let the winds…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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An inch of time on the sundial is worth more than a foot of jade.
— Confucius
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God, who winds up our sundials ...
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
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I suppose we all tend to remember only the happiness from our childhood, as a sundial refuses to tell the time except…
— Bernard Levin
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Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?
— Benjamin Franklin
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A stopped clock is correct twice a day, but a sundial can be used to stab someone, even at nighttime.
— John Hodgman
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We are all so afraid, we are all so alone, we all so need from the outside the assurance of our own…
— Ford Madox Ford
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