"Like building a house, travel always costs more than you estimate."

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Source : Ilka Chase (1963). “Elephants Arrive at Half-past Five”, Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday

Ilka Chase

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“When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”
“My preference is for prose with more silence in it, language that contains more pockets of strangeness.”
“We need to profoundly revise all of our taxes and charges. The aim is to tax pollution - notably fossil fuels - more, and tax work less”
“We enter our studies, and enjoy a society which we alone can bring together. We raise no jealousy by conversing with one in preference to another; we give no offence to the most illustrious by questioning him as long as we will, and leaving him as abruptly. Diversity of opinion raises no tumult in our presence: each interlocutor stands before us, speaks or is silent, and we adjourn or decide the business at our leisure.”
“The king must die so that the country can live.”
“Discipline is the foundation upon which all success is built. Lack of discipline inevitably leads to failure.”
“I wish that television would stop selling our hatred of ourselves, and start seducing us with our love of ourselves.”

Source : "The Showrunner Transcript: Community’s Dan Harmon on Finale Cameos and Season-Long Lessons". Interview with Kyle Buchanan, www.vulture.com. May 13, 2011.
“Creatively, I really feel like I gave it my all, and I feel ready to let her go,”

Source : "Sandra Oh to Exit 'Grey's Anatomy' (Exclusive)" Lesley Goldberg, www.hollywoodreporter.com. August 13, 2013.

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