"As to modesty and decency, if we are simians we have done well, considering: but if we are something else-fallen angels-we have indeed fallen far."

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Source : Clarence Day, Jr. (2004). “This Simian World”, p.56, 1st World Publishing

Clarence Day

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“Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived. The odors of fruits waft me to my southern home, to my childhood frolics in the peach orchard. Other odors, instantaneous and fleeting, cause my heart to dilate joyously or contract with remembered grief. Even as I think of smells, my nose is full of scents that start awake sweet memories of summers gone and ripening fields far away.”
“And so for a couple of years my life was divided between my music and my school books.”
“I couldn't tell how many times I've been to Japan off the top of my head, I just have a few standout moments that were very defining and inspirational at different parts of my life. As far as moving there, I don't know. That's a tall order there. I feel there's people that go so far as to do that, and good for them, but I just can't. For me it's not a misplaced passion or a weird infatuation - it's more like I've just had a good chance to realize how immensely their art has affected our American culture, and I don't take it for granted. I've got a very big appreciation.”
“I've got lots of good friends. I could have affairs. I can read a book all night, put the cat on the end of the bed. I can pick up my passport and go to France. I don't have to ask anybody.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I was in for 10 hours and had 40 pints - beating my previous record by 20 minutes”
“You wouldn't want any creative process to lose its sense of fun and adventure, but that doesn't mean you can't take it seriously as well.”
“Everyday, think as you wake up, today I am fortunate to be alive, I have a precious human life, I am not going to waste it.”
“The last thing IBM needs right now is a vision.”

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