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“It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story.”
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“The two elements of the suburban pattern that cause the greatest problems are the extreme separation of uses and the vast distances between things”
Source : James Howard Kunstler (1994). “Geography Of Nowhere: The Rise And Declineof America'S Man-Made Landscape”, p.117, Simon and Schuster
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“Knowledge is boundless,--human capacity, limited.”
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“In Paul Friedrich's book Proto-Indo-European Trees he identifies the "semantic primitives" of the Indo-European tribe of languages through a group of words that have not changed much through twelve thousand years - and those are tree names: especially birch, willow, adler, elm, ash, apple and beech (bher, wyt, alysos, ulmo, os, abul, bhago). Seed syllables, bija, of the life of the west.”
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“People love my collard greens. They love my macaroni and cheese. They love the gumbo. They love my Jamaican jerk or my Jamaican curry chicken. They love the jerk, though. And they love my Mexican food.”
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“I do, therefore, invite my fellow citizens . . . to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens.”
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“Good hitters don't become intimidated. They become infuriated.”
Source : Interview with Matt Warden, riveraveblues.com. June 12, 2013. 
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“It is not simply what one remembers, but why. There are sites of amputation where the past is severed from the body of the present. Remembering only encourages the growth of phantom limbs. And it is not simply what one remembers, or why, but what to do with what one remembers, which of the scattered pieces to carry forward, what to protect and preserve, what to leave behind.”
Source : Camilla Gibb (2007). “Sweetness in the Belly”, p.107, Penguin
