"The cat, it is well to remember, remains the friend of man because it pleases him to do so and not because he must."

-- Carl Van Vechten

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“Back in middle school, Catherine and I had gone through this stage where all we would read were fantasy books. We'd consume them like M&M's, by the fistful, J.R.R. Tolkien and Terry Brooks and Susan Cooper and Lloyd Alexander. Susan Boone looked, to me, like the queen of the elves (there's almost always an elf queen in fantasy books). I mean, she was shorter than me and had on a strange lineny outfit in pale blues and greens....”
“The wind is the appalling enemy. It is mind-destroying, physically-destroying, soul-destroying.”

Source : Chris Bonington (1973). “The Ultimate Challenge: The Hardest Way Up the Highest Mountain in the World”, Scarborough House
“Who quick be to borrow and slow be to pay, their credit is naught, go they ever so gay.”
“When Things Fall Apartâ€Â and I quote â€œLife is a good teacher and a good friend. Things are always in transition, if we could only realize it. Â Nothing ever sums itself up in the way that we like to dream about. The off-center, in-between state is an ideal situation, a situation in which we don't get caught and we can open our hearts and minds beyond limit. It's a very tender, nonaggressive, open-ended state of affairs.”
“Few children learn to read books by themselves. Someone has to lure them into the wonderful world of the written word; Someone has to show them the way.”
“The rattling of the relays of the Z4 was the only interesting thing to be experienced in Zurich's night life!”

Source : "The First Computers: History and Architectures". Book by Ra L Rojas, p. 270, 2002.
“free market is a market in which groups and individuals are differently represented. Parity in prosperity and performance between differently able individuals and groups can be achieved only by playing socialist leveler.”
“When you're getting ready, you finally reach a point where your clothes are right and your hair and makeup are right, and you're not comparing yourself to anyone. It's a really great moment. Then you get to the party and it's like, "Oh my god, I'm wearing the wrong thing! I'm garish!" or "I'm underdressed!"”

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