"The simple fact that something has not been done, is no proof that it cannot be."

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Source : Iain Pears (1999). “AN Instance of the Fingerpost”, p.91, Penguin

Iain Pears

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“The lady is proverbial for her skill in eluding definition ... she may be described merely as the female of the favored social class.”
“There are these painterly things that happen while I'm working.”
“Sometimes you just gotta be drop-kicked out of the nest.”

Source : "The Complete Robert Downey Jr". Interview with Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. April 16, 2012.
“A new kind of mind thus beings to come into being which is based on the development of a common meaning that is constantly transforming in the process of the dialogue.”
“the brain works better if the hand works too.”
“Parenthood abruptly catapults us into a permanent relationship with a stranger, and the more alien the stranger, the stronger the whiff of negativity. We depend on the guarantee in our children's faces that we will not die. Children whose defining quality annihilates that fantasy of immortality are a particular insult; we must love them for themselves, and not for the best of ourselves in them, and that is a great deal harder to do. Loving our own children is an exercise for the imagination.”
“No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity.”
“Terrible and sublime thought, that every moment is supreme for some man and woman, every hour the apotheosis of some passion!”

Source : William McFee (1916). “Casuals of the Sea: The Voyage of a Soul”

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