"What a blessing this smoking is! Perhaps the greatest that we owe to the discovery of America."

-- Arthur Helps

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“Anybody who becomes a movie star becomes successful at projecting a certain image to the public.”
“I took LSD and listened to Coltrane a lot; a lot of people did.”
“Nonfiction requires enormous discipline. You construct the terms of your story, and then you stick to them.”
“My advice to any traveler who is traveling in order to learn would be: 'Fight tooth and nail to be permitted to travel in what is technically the least efficient way.'”
“The delight of the Torah is ignited by an inner awareness. A man begins to sense the great tapestry of each letter and point. Every concept and content, every notion and idea, of every spiritual movement, of every vibration, intellectual and emotional, from the immediate and general to the distant and detailed, from matters lofty, spiritual, and ethical according to their outward profile, to matters practical, obligatory, seemingly frightening, and forceful, and at the same time complex and full of content and great mental exertion - all together become known by a supernal holy awareness.”

Source : "XXVIII : The Inner Light of Torah in the Land of Israel". Translation by Rabbi Bezalel Naor, p. 208,
“I'm always without sleep. I've got two kids. I understand sleep deprivation on a profound level.”
“I felt that I was not, never had been and never would be a living part of this overpoweringly solid and deeply meaningful world around me.”

Source : John Knowles (2014). “A Separate Peace”, p.158, Simon and Schuster
“Too much me is annoying under any circumstance, but too much me in an essay, however personal, would mar the art. My "character" in the essay is more like a perspective, an angle of vision, a complicating factor, a questioning presence. I don't sit on the sidelines or pretend to objectivity; and I'm not afraid to stick my neck out or to be revealing and vulnerable.”

Source : "Loitering: A Conversation with Essayist and Author Charles D'Ambrosio". Interview With Chris Schluep, www.amazonbookreview.com. February 3, 2016.

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