"Youth is an arithmetical statement of passing interest, each hour eats it up."

-- Stevie Smith

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“The diagnosis of homosexuality as a "disorder" is a contributing factor to the pathology of those homosexuals who do become mentally ill.... Nothing is more likely to make you sick than being constantly told that you are sick.”
“Invention is a flower, innovation is a weed.”

Source : "Ethernet inventor on IoT, innovation, more: Bob Metcalfe Q&A". "RCR Wireless News" with Sean Kinney, www.rcrwireless.com. November 12, 2015.
“Let Apella the Jew believe it.”
“There are blessings in being close to the soil, in raising your own food even if it is only a garden in your yard and a fruit tree or two. Those families will be fortunate who, in the last days, have an adequate supply of food because of their foresight and ability to produce their own.”
“Jump way back to one time, Evie and me did this fashion shoot in a junk yard, in a slaughterhouse, in a mortuary. We'd go anywhere to look good by comparison, and what I realize is mostly what I hate about Evie is the fact that she's so vain and stupid and needy. But what I hate most is how she's just like me. What I really hate is me so I hate pretty much everybody.”
“And inasmuch as the bridge is a symbol of all such poetry as I am interested in writing it is my present fancy that a year from now I'll be more contented working in an office than ever before.”

Source : Hart Crane (1965). “The letters of Hart Crane, 1916-1932”
“We're all gonna lie, we're all gonna cry, and we're all gonna take painful shits.”
“Kindness is not without its rocks ahead. People are apt to put it down to an easy temper and seldom recognize it as the secret striving of a generous nature; whilst, on the other hand, the ill-natured get credit for all the evil they refrain from.”

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