"All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath."

-- F. Scott Fitzgerald

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“To begin to understand the gorgeous fever that is consciousness, we must try to understand the senses and what they can tell us about the ravishing world we have the privilege to inhabit.”
“I try not to handle the foreign subjects with my English techniques and preconceptions, but to paint Sydney in Sydney and Tangier in Tangier.”
“You don't get what you don't ask for”
“Now I'm a scientific expert; that means I know nothing about absolutely everything.”
“I must confess that, at that time, I had absolutely no knowledge of the slowness of the relaxation processes in the ground state, processes which take place in collisions with the wall or with the molecules of a foreign gas.”
“Although I was born to famous parents, I know and feel the problems of ordinary citizens.”

Source : Inauguration speech of His Excellency Benigno Aquino III, President of the Philippines, at Quirino Grandstand in Manila (translated from Filipino), newsinfo.inquirer.net. June 30, 2010.
“She might be without country, without nation, but inside her there was still a being that could exist and be free, that could simply say I amwithout adding a this, or a that, without saying I am Indian, Guyanese, English, or anything else in the world.”

Source : Sharon Maas (2014). “Of Marriageable Age”, p.395, Bookouture
“Well, I wanted to play twenty years in the major leagues. I never made it twenty though. I played nineteen.”

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