"The art of walking is at once suggestive of the dignity of man. Progressive motion alone implies power, but in almost every other instance it seems a power gained at the expense of self-possession."

-- Henry Theodore Tuckerman

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“Some people underestimate how erotic it is to be understood.”

Source : Mary Rakow (2015). “The Memory Room: A Novel”, p.303, Counterpoint
“I believe that success brings responsibility. It also does not bring immunity to the consequences of our quickening march towards oblivion. The bottom line is that all of us should be invovled in our own futures to create a world that our children will want to live in.”
“Love is the emotion that a woman feels always for a poodle dog and sometimes for a man.”

Source : George Jean Nathan (1952). “The world of George Jean Nathan”
“Justice in politics has an uncomfortable habit of being rough.”

Source : Robert Rhodes James (1986). “Anthony Eden”, George Weidenfeld & Nicholson
“Everything for me becomes allegory”
“It's all very well for us to sit here in the west with our high incomes and cushy lives, and say it's immoral to violate the sovereignty of another state. But if the effect of that is to bring people in that country economic and political freedom, to raise their standard of living, to increase their life expectancy, then don't rule it out.”

Source : "Niall Ferguson: 'Westerners don't understand how vulnerable freedom is" by William Skidelsky, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2011.
“I used to write sonnets and various things, and moved from there into writing prose, which, incidentally, is a lot more interesting than poetry, including the rhythms of prose.”
“Most guys I know are assholes. I have some great ***** friends, but that's not the point. Friendship has got nothing to do with that. It's 'can you hang, can you talk about this without any feeling of distance between you?' Friendship is the diminishing of distance between people. That's what friendship is, and to me it's one of the most important things in the world.”

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