"Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason, and those of us who are mothers know it's the most exquisite love of all."

-- Maggie Gallagher

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“A haiku is the expression of a temporary enlightenment, in which we see into the life of things.”

Source : Reginald Horace Blyth (1951). “Haiku: Eastern culture”
“Budapest is a prime site for dreams: the Eastâ€™s exuberant vision of the West, the Westâ€™s uneasy hallucination of the East. It is a dreamed-up city; a city almost completely faked; a city invented out of other cities, out of Paris by way of Vienna â€” the imitation, as Claudio Magris has it, of an imitation.”
“America's greatness has been the greatness of a free people who shared certain moral commitments. Freedom without moral commitment is aimless and promptly self-destructive.”
“But we agree with the NTSB that if we eliminated the thrust- reverser calculation, it would be an extra margin of safety. Airport capacity and airline efficiency are important, but safety is the most important thing.”
“I have yet to met a liberal who can withstand the attrition of prolonged discussion of the unessentials.”
“The old man, of whom we know how he has become what he is, is more of an individual than the young man; for it is only in the course of an eventful life that men are differentiated into full individuality.”

Source : Erich Auerbach, Edward W. Said (2013). “Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature”, p.18, Princeton University Press
“Okay thatâ€™s it. Now Iâ€™m torching this. I just need to score a match.”
“Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.”

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