"Animals when in company walk in a proper and sensible manner, in single file, instead of sprawling all across the road and being of no use or support to each other in case of sudden trouble or danger."

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Source : Kenneth Grahame (2012). “The Wind in the Willows: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.60, Penguin

Kenneth Grahame

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“A little talent is a good thing to have if you want to be a writer. But the only real requirement is the ability to remember every scar.”
“No matter how physically faint, a photograph involuntarily whisper of something exquisitely carnal. The weeks, the years, whatever stretches of time separating our present from the photographs retire into the transparence of the shot and seem erased by it. We almost have to shake ourselves to overcome the feeling that we peer out at the other place, in that different age. Yet we are always aware of this illusory dislocation, for such is the ambiguity, in principle, that seduces us over and over again in the photographic experience.”
“Your whole life you are really writing one book, which is an attempt to grasp the consciousness of your time and placeâ€“ a single book written from different stages of your ability.”
“As a man grows older it is harder and harder to frighten him.”
“You don't spend ten years appealing to middle-aged women and then suddenly turn around and start trying to connect with 25-year-old women. You're almost certainly going to alienate the people who have an investment in your brand, and there's no guarantee you're going to be successful with the new group.”
“Why, if there is alphabet soup, do we not have punctuation cereal?”

Source : Mary Norris (2015). “Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen”, p.81, W. W. Norton & Company
“When I was in grade school I was always the guy that got 20 or 18 points. Even back then, I would lead my team in scoring.”
“There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.”

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