"There may be dead ground in between; and I may not have got The knack of judging a distance; I will only venture A guess that perhaps between me and the apparent lovers, (Who, incidentally, appear by now to have finished,) At seven o'clock from the houses, is roughly a distance Of about one year and a half."

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Source : 1946 Lessons of theWar, pt.2,'Judging Distances'.

Henry Reed

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“The music is not the truth.”
“A night journey is essentially a thing of possibilities.”

Source : Katherine Cecil Thurston (2012). “Max”, p.10, tredition
“His right ear still held both studs, and I wondered who had the missing earring. I would have asked, but was afraid heâ€™d tell me Ivy had it.”
“Fahrenheit 9/11 took public domain information that should have been on the news every night and put it in a film that a lot of people went to see. But still Bush has never had to answer those charges.”

Source : "Liberal America's last stand" by Xan Brooks, www.theguardian.com. July 21, 2005.
“I think most of the things I published have been published out of desperation, not because they were perfected.”

Source : "An Interview with M. H. Abrams by Sharon Hamilton". People's Education, March 10, 2007.
“Even I would find a book about my life pretty dull.”
“And then she thought that you went on living one day after another, and in time you were somebody else, your previous self only like a close relative, a sister or brother, with whom you shared a past. But a different person, a separate life. Certainly neither she nor Inman were the people they had been the last time they were together. And she believed maybe she liked them both better now.”
“My understanding is that you get to choose which of your thoughts to go with.”

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