"Well, Buttermere, this is a day that is good to live and breathe in, that makes a man feel in his prime. Standing here in front of my house, I feel as young as when I moved into it thirty years ago, in the year eighteen hundred and fifty-nine. What aged man would you take me to be, as I step as it were casually into your view?"

-- Ivy Compton-Burnett

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“You might as well ask an artist to explain his art, or ask a poet to explain his poem. It defeats the purpose. The meaning is only clear thorough the search.”
“The skin is a variety of contingency: in it, through it, with it, the world and my body touch each other, the feeling and the felt, it defines their common edge. Contingency means common tangency: in it the world and the body intersect and caress each other. I do not wish to call the place in which I live a medium, I prefer to say that things mingle with each other and that I am no exception to that. I mix with the world which mixes with me. Skin intervenes between several things in the world and makes them mingle.”
“Records can ruin you. That's why it's important to be as intimately familiar as possible with the history of recorded music, I guess. In a way, it's an argument for record collecting.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“It's bad to wake up and see a large cat in mid-leap from the rough vicinity of the ceiling.”

Source : Usenet article "Gay and straight", groups.google.com. February 14, 2003.
“Never do a thing concerning the rectitude of which you are in doubt.”

Source : Pliny (the Younger.), William Melmoth (1805). “The Letters of Pliny the Consul”, p.51
“We have tried you citizens; we are trying you now, and you have a couple of dollars for the sorrowing mothers, brothers and sisters by way of a charity gift.”

Source : “'I Can’t Talk Fellowship': Lessons From the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in the Wake of the BP Oil Disaster" by Cherri Foytlin, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 7, 2013.
“Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old fashioned quite suddenly.”
“Firemen have the coolest toys ever!”

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