"Delimitation is always difficult. The world is one, life is one. The sweetest and most heavenly of activities partake in some measure of violence - the act of love, for instance; music, for instance."

-- Anthony Burgess

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“Although the vast majority of walkers never even think of using a walking staff, I unhesitatingly include it among the foundations of the house that travels on my back.”

Source : Colin Fletcher, Chip Rawlins (2015). “The Complete Walker IV”, p.146, Knopf
“Five years off my life... I wondered with a wry smile, would people be immortal if they didn't have kids?”
“I know a lot about a few things - mostly useless things.”
“I'll never live to write all the stories I have in my head.”
“Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.”

Source : Quoted in Reader's Digest, Mar. 1934
“Not even Sen. [Joseph] McCarthy was able to repress ideas he opposed as effectively as Harvard's hiring committees have suppressed the conservative viewpoints they despise and fear.”
“An Indian is an Indian regardless of the degree of Indian blood or which little government card they do or do not possess.”
“There's no doubt in my mind that people on the West Coast - L.A. particularly - and the East Coast have no clue at all about what's happening outside their own little bailiwick. And they think everybody is stupid because they are not sophisticated.”

Source : "Vegetarian Sophie Monk goes nude for PETA". www.heraldsun.com.au. October 21, 2007.

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