"I have always kept ducks, even as a child, and the colours of their plumage, in particular the dark green and snow white, seemed to me the only possible answer to the questions that are on my mind."

-- W. G. Sebald

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“Champions play as they practice. Create a consistency of excellence in all your habits.”
“Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.”
“The pleasures of intimacy in friendship depend far more on external circumstances than people of a sentimental turn of mind are willing to concede; and when constant companionship ceases to suit the convenience of both parties, the chances are that it will be dropped on the first favourable opportunity.”

Source : Hester Lynch Piozzi (1861). “Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale)”, p.100
“L.A. just doesn't seem real to me. Chicago does. My real friends are there. It's home.”

Source : "Chris O'Donnell: Whatever Blows Your Hair Back". Interview with Lawrence Grobel, movieline.com. March 1, 1996.
“I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone. The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square.”
“I have to drink a lot of fluids, try not to dehydrate, and keep stretching.”
“Cause, frankly, the way I see it, you and me? Inevitable.”
“Standing in a garage no more makes you a car than standing in a church makes you a Christian.”

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