"In the modern technoindustrial culture, it is possible to proceed from infancy into senility without ever knowing manhood."

-- Edward Abbey

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“You know I enjoy modeling but at the end of the day it's a little bit mindless. I mean I was that person that would come home from a modeling job and have to clean the house because I sort of felt like, what the heck did I do today? You know I mean I'm like woo-hoo, I'm changing the world in these blue high heels and a string bikini.”

Source : "Becoming Pony Boi". Interview with Mike Furci, www.bullz-eye.com. December 12, 2008.
“These differences, they say, are three: shape, arrangement, and position; because they hold that what is differs only in contour, inter-contact, inclination.”
“Spring had come. Despite the many wet and gusty days which April had thrust in rude challenge upon reluctant May, in the glory of the triumphant sun which flooded the concave blue of heaven and the myriad shaded green of earth, the whole world knew to-day, the whole world proclaimed that spring had come. The yearly miracle had been performed.”

Source : Ralph Connor (2009). “The Major”, p.1, ReadHowYouWant.com
“And if real life was like the movies, I should have lived happily ever after.”
“Men, I'm getting out of Rome. Anyone who wants to carry on the war against the outsiders, come with me. I can offer you neither honours nor wages; I offer you hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Anyone who loves his country, follow me”

Source : Guiseppe Guerzoni 'Garibaldi' (1882) vol. 1, p. 331. (The speech was not recorded verbatim.)
“I'm not on all the time. I like to have fun and be funny, but I'm much more of a thinker.”
“So, it's a very, you know - maybe we're wrong in - you know, we go around thinking the innovator is the person who's first to kind of conceive of something. And maybe the innovation process continues down the line to the second and the third and the fourth entrant into a field.”
“As soon as someone like me or David Lynch pops up everyone says hallelujah, how weird.”

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