"I do not write for the public. You are my public and I hope to convert you."

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Source : Gerard Manley Hopkins (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins (Illustrated)”, p.174, Delphi Classics

Gerard Manley Hopkins

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“Aristocratic depression has this cosmic dimension to it, where it's asking these big questions about, "Why?" "What is the purpose of all this?" Neuroses of the middle class is the banishment of aristocratic depression, because it's kind of this obsession with quotidian detail that pushes these larger questions away.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Because we have this whole other human being we have to think about other than ourselves. We had the luxury before of being totally self-centered.”

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“My goal now is to remember every place I've been, only do things I love, and not say yes when I don't mean it.”
“Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.”

Source : In New York Times 13 Feb. 1959, p. 21
“We'd even devised the Buffy scale of life relationships: you start off wanting Xander, spend your twenties going out with Spike and setttle down with giles.”

Source : Jenny Colgan (2005). “The Boy I Loved Before: A Novel”, p.14, Macmillan
“We do not innovate anything ... How is it that novelties are introduced which were never even thought of by our predecessors?”
“Chaga is significant in ethnomycology, forest ecology, and increasingly in pharmacognosy. Its long-term human use and cultural eastern European and Russian acceptance should awaken serious researchers to its potential as a reservoir of new medicines, and as a powerful preventive ally for protecting DNA.”

Source : "Chaga, the Clinker Fungus: This Mushroom Looks Scary But Can Benefit Health" by Paul Stamets, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 25, 2012.
“Every painting is always two paintings: The one you see, and the one you remember.”

Source : Siri Hustvedt (2006). “Mysteries of the Rectangle: Essays on Painting”, p.12, Princeton Architectural Press

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