"I mean to say, whether a yarn is tall or small I like to hear it well told. I like to meet a man that can take in hand to tell a story and not make a balls of it while he's at it. I like to know where I am, do you know. Everything has a beginning and an end."

-- Flann O'Brien

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“The writer has a grudge against society, which he documents with accounts of unsatisfying sex, unrealized ambition, unmitigated loneliness, and a sense of local and global distress. The square, overpopulation, the bourgeois, the bomb and the cocktail party are variously identified as sources of the grudge. There follows a little obscenity here, a dash of philosophy there, considerable whining overall, and a modern satirical novel is born.”
“The right good book is always a book of travel; it is about a life's journey.”
“People will insist on treating the mons Veneris as though it were Mount Everest. Too silly!”
“If I am young, then you should look not to age but to deeds.”
“It is not the bigness of anything in this kind that can hinder its motion, if the motive faculty be answerable thereunto. We see a great ship swims as well as a small cork, and an eagle flies in the air as well as a little gnat. 'Tis likely enough that there may be means invented of journeying to the Moon; and how happy they shall be that are first successful in this attempt.”

Source : "A Discourse Concerning a New World and Another Planet". Book by John Wilkins, Book 1, Chapter 14, p. 238-239, 1640.
“In nakedness I behold the majesty of the essential instead of the trappings of pretension.”

Source : Horatio Greenough, Harold A. Small (1947). “Form and Function: Remarks on Art, Design, and Architecture”, p.75, Univ of California Press
“There's a lot of talk these days about giving children self-esteem. It's not something you can give; it's something they have to build.”
“A study of over 10,000 patients shows clearly that chemo's supposedly strong track record with Hodgkin's disease (lymphoma) is actually a lie. Patients who underwent chemo were 14 times more likely to develop leukemia and 6 times more likely to develop cancers of the bones, joints, and soft tissues than those patients who did not undergo chemotherapy .”

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