"I'd rather take advice from my valet than from the Conservative Party Conference"

-- Arthur Balfour

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“The truth isn't easily pinned to a page. In the bathtub of history the truth is harder to hold than the soap and much more difficult to find.”
“As a bassist he could never really be a sideman. He was always the anchor. He drove the beat. even if it was behind Miles Davis'a horn.”
“Personal religious convictions have no place in political campaigns or in dictating public policy.”

Source : Geraldine Ferraro, Linda Bird Francke (1985). “Ferraro: My Story”, p.211, Northwestern University Press
“We are voyagers, discoverers of the not-known, the unrecorded; we have no map; possibly we will reach haven, heaven.”

Source : Hilda Doolittle (1998). “Trilogy”, p.43, New Directions Publishing
“The long summer was over. For ages a tropical climate had prevailed over a great part of the earth, and animals whose home is now beneath the Equator roamed over the world from the far South to the very borders of the Arctics ... But their reign was over. A sudden intense winter, that was also to last for ages, fell upon our globe.”
“If we want to make sense of the possibility of successful inductive inference, and if we want to explain the possibility of laws of nature, we will need to appeal to something like natural kinds. This is, to be sure, a metaphysical commitment, but it is a metaphysical commitment that is implicit in science, as I see it.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
“Relief washed over me like that first air-conditioned breeze on a hot summer day.”
“Dead people belong to the live people who claim them most obsessively.”

Source : "My Dark Places". Book by James Ellroy, 1996.

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