"We should have thought of it when the world was young, in the nineties."

-- Samuel Beckett

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“Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.”
“Most historians accept that Egypt was a cradle of civilization, and that many cultural idioms and traditions come from there. What has yet to be understood, however, is the manner in which Egypt inherited its cultural elements from the lands of the North-West. This fact is not known today because of the threat it poses to Rome and London, the Vatican and Crown, and to all those who have profited from the suppression of knowledge.”
“Creative work and critical thought, which produces new knowledge, can't be conditioned; indeed, conditioning prevents these things from ever happening.”
“Suddenly the full long wail of a ship's horn surged through the open window and flooded the dim room - a cry of boundless, dark, demanding grief; pitch-black and glabrous as a whale's back and burdened with all the passions of the tides, the memory of voyages beyond counting, the joys, the humiliations: the sea was screaming. Full of the glitter and the frenzy of night, the horn thundered in, conveying from the distant offing, from the dead center of the sea, a thirst for the dark nectar in the little room.”
“Happiness, most often, is a choice. Make the choice to sit, breathe, and be in that moment.”

Source : Cathy Lamb (2011). “The First Day of the Rest of My Life”, p.252, Kensington Publishing Corp.
“I love being in my garden. I don't plant a lot of exotic flora, but I do spend a lot of time outside doing manual labour.”
“My novels tend to take a long time to become exactly what they're going to be. They're fluid messes until I've done a ton of editing and refining and rewriting. When I write novels, I always make related scrapbooks to help me organize and test my intentions.”

Source : "Go Forth (Vol.19)". Interview with Brandon Hobson and Nicolle Elizabeth, logger.believermag.com. December 11, 2013.
“Freedom is not given - it is taken.”

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