"This silent cry is of ecstasy for what has been done, and of despair at being forestalled, and being thus forewarned, that neither This Year nor Next Year am I to have the ability and wisdom to light the lamp on my own. Although one branch of childhood is in this fashion lopped for all time, the rest of it still inhabits the body of a child which occupies itself in childish matters."

-- Hal Porter

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“I hate champagne more than anything in the world next to Seven-Up.”

Source : Elaine Dundy (2010). “The Dud Avocado”, p.39, New York Review of Books
“The hardest part of anything is making a dish consistently great - you order it seven years later, if it's still on the menu, and it's still as good as what you remember.”
“A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender.”
“The conscious experience of being a subject arises when a single organism learns to enslave itself.”

Source : Thomas Metzinger (2009). “The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self”, p.96, Basic Books
“Take the understanding of the East and the knowledge of the West-and then seek.”
“Books must be treated with respect, we feel that in our bones, because words have power. Bring enough words together they can bend space and time.”

Source : "Going Postal". TV Mini-Series, www.imdb.com. 2010 -.
“Professional golfer... what a life.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The only creative power I know is that of what might roughly be called 'love'; not of course a sentimental love: a far more impersonal and less individual emotion. I sometimes think that migratory birds may have it for each other. They fly in the same direction, and have never been seen to interfere with each other's flights.”

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