"a local train ... moved gently off up the line with a very singular motion indeed, in which the leap of a frog, the bounce of a pogo-stick, and the canter of a very short fat pony all were brought to mind."

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Source : Honor Tracy (1957). “Silk Hats and No Breakfast: Notes on a Spanish Journey”, New York, Random House [1958

Honor Tracy

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“I truly value the cinema experience, the tribal gathering in the dark to watch something larger than life. I like to sit in the first row with no heads in front of mine, and become one with the screen. I always stay for the complete credits so I can linger in the film's story just a little longer.”
“If, however, you have richer pursuits in mind and know that no woman should be judged by how she looks - that everything she brings to the party is more important than the size of her arse - then refuse to be sucked into the never ending whirligig of self-doubting, self-hating madness that is stop-start dieting and crazy new exercise regimes.”

Source : "Try it - don't diet" by Arabella Weir, www.theguardian.com. December 31, 2010.
“We often learn more of God under the rod that strikes us than under the staff that comforts us.”

Source : Stephen Charnock (1815). “The Works of the Late Rev. Stephen Charnock ... With a Prefatory Dedication and Memoir”, p.678
“I think each family has a funhouse logic all its own, and in that distortion,in that delusion, all behavior can seem both perfectly normal and crazy.”

Source : Darin Strauss (2011). “Half a Life: A Memoir”, p.101, Random House
“I began to research the concept of dimensionality from the point of view of quality, and not just quantity, as a mathematician might do. Taking my clues from the theosophical use made of the Vedantic levels of reality, I identified the western notion of Energy (as someting which is effecatious by means of motion), with the idea of Time. The more comprehensive dimension 'eternity' I defined as a form of energy which is efficacious without motion. In this manner I began to establish the qualities of dimensions and open out the seemingly monolithic concept of energy.”
“I'm a playmaker, and I'm going to score. At the end of the day, my job is to put the ball in the basket.”
“Today the most outlaw thing you can possibly do in Nashville, Tennessee, is play country music.”
“From day one, I've always been a girly girl. In pre-school I loved driving around in my super Barbie car.”

Source : "Miss You Can Do It Premieres Tonight on HBO". Interview with Melissa Silverstein, www.indiewire.com. June 24, 2013.

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