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William Dean Howells

"The swelling and towering omnibuses, the huge trucks and wagons and carriages, the impetuous hansoms and the more sobered four-wheelers, the pony-carts, donkey-carts, hand-carts, and bicycles which fearlessly find their way amidst the turmoil, with foot-passengers winding in and out, and covering the sidewalks with their multitude, give the effect of a single monstrous organism, which writhes swiftly along the channel where it had run in the figure of a flood till you were tired of that metaphor. You are now a molecule of that vast organism."

-- William Dean Howells

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“Tinted Distances is the achievement of a wise and discerning poet.”
“I was into all kinds of music as a teen - country music, because my dad was in a band that played country, and whatever my sister and brother were into.”
“We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician.”
“Concepts and intellectual devices or chops can't mask or conceal an underlying lack of emotive power.”
“I'll be drunk again to feel a little love.”
“In every age states of varying size and constitution and at every level of development have found naval warfare to be one of their most formidable and expensive tasks. Ships have always been large, costly and complicated, and warships much more complicated and costly than any others. Scholars are nowadays inclined to emphasize the power, wealth and sophistication of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, and there is not more striking illustration of this than the advanced and elaborate administrative structures of the early English navy.”
“What would I like? Some very silly comedy where I don't have to think about anything, but it could be a lot of fun. And if it's not that, then I'll want to be involved in something where it's like, you're really dredged up to the neck in emotion, where it's as exciting as the premise of Battlestar.”

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“Get outta my dreams Get into my car.”

Source : "Get Outta My Dreams, Get into My Car". Song by Billy Ocean and Robert John Lange, 1987.

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