"All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they really happened and after you are finished reading one you feel that it all happened to you and after which it all belongs to you."

-- Ernest Hemingway

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“The general at the radar screenRubbed his hands with glee,And grinning pressed the buttonAnd started world war three.”
“As good as we were, we didnâ€™t win a National Championship until 1993, mainly because we kept losing to Miami on missed kicks.Â I used to get mad because nobody else would play Miami.Â Notre Dame would play them, then drop them.Â Florida dropped them.Â Penn State dropped them.Â We would play Miami and lose by one point on a missed field goal, and it would knock us out of the National Championship.Â I didnâ€™t want to play them, either, but I had to play them.Â Thatâ€™s why I said, When I die, Theyâ€™ll say, â€˜At least he played Miami.”
“People used to say poems were different to songs but I don't think they are.”
“You see what you understand, You have to be prepared to see the world. The moment of clicking the camera is almost irrelevant. What is really important is what happens before and after you take the picture.”
“All of nature begins to whisper its secrets to us through its sounds. Sounds that were previously incomprehensible to our soul now become the meaningful language of nature.”
“Sir Alex, Mourinho, Wenger - none of them could have done a better job at Wigan than Steve Bruce ...”
“Formulae are the anaesthetics of thought, not its stimulants and to make any one think is far better worth while than cramming him with ill-considered, and therefore indigestible, learning.”

Source : "Mars and its Canals". Book by Percival Lowell, Preface, 1906.
“You as an audience can look at these things as films, but I remember them as social experiences.”

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