"I'm proud that I was able to start with nothing, plan it, and have it work as perfectly as it did... I sleep clearly every night."

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Source : "Hiroshima bomb pilot dies aged 92", news.bbc.co.uk. November 1, 2007.

Paul Tibbets

#Sleep Quotes #Night Quotes #Proud Quotes

“The first line is the DNA of the poem; the rest of the poem is constructed out of that first line. A lot of it has to do with tone because tone is the key signature for the poem. The basis of trust for a reader used to be meter and end-rhyme.”
“It's hard for me to answer a question from someone who really doesn't care about the answer.”
“Places are fragmentary and inward-turning histories, pasts that others are not allowed to read, accumulated times that can be unfolded but like stories held in reserve, remaining in an enigmatic state, symbolizations encysted in the pain or pleasure of he body. 'I feel good here': the well-being under-expressed in the language it appears in like a fleeting glimmer is a spatial practice.”

Source : Michel de Certeau (2011). “The Practice of Everyday Life”, p.108, Univ of California Press
“...nothing could be more pleasant than to live in solitude, enjoy the spectacle of nature, and occasionally read some book... ...”

Source : Nikolai Gogol (2011). “Dead Souls: A Novel”, p.26, Vintage
“The classicist, and the naturalist who has much in common with him, refuse to see in the highest works of art anything but the exercise of judgement, sensibility, and skill. The romanticist cannot be satisfied with such a normal standard; for him art is essentially irrational - an experience beyond normality, sometimes destructive of normality, and at the very least evocative of that state of wonder which is the state of mind induced by the immediately inexplicable.”
“What would mathematics have amounted to without the imagination of its devotees-its giants and their followers? There never was a discovery made without the urge of imagination-of imagination which broke the roadway through the forest in order that cold logic might follow.”
“I think there's always been singers like that and i've done my fair share of cheese as well.”
“Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (whose mother died ten days after she was born) wrote a novel that anticipates Semmelweis's discovery and serves as a parable for the destructive power of decaying matter.”

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