"New York has no truck with the past. It expels its dead."

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Source : Luc Sante (2016). “Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York”, p.10, Macmillan

Luc Sante

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“There are times when we do not recognize that it is time for us to move forward. When life is ready for us to move and we resist, life will move us by any means necessary. What may feel like a disaster is actually a graduation. Remain open to being guided, supported and protected by the universe.”
“I would like the Medical Society to be one of the resources for information about the influences that have an impact on our patients and our practices.”
“I find it hard to take rock groups very seriously or treat them with respect. There is something absurd about these gloomy young men getting together and banging away.”
“We do not wait for inspiration. We work because we've jolly well got to. But when all is said and done, we toil at this particular job because it's turned out to be our particular job, and in a weird sort of way I suppose we may be said to like it.”
“We know that nature is described by the best of all possible mathematics because God created it.”
“Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime.”

Source : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 148-149), 1922.
“It is a predisposition of human nature to consider an unpleasant idea untrue, and then it is easy to find arguments against it.”
“He sleeps well who knows not that he sleeps ill.”

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