"We know all along that time is squeezing us into a corner while we mentally rocket to each new star that flares across our sky, and yet we can't help ourselves."

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Source : Seymour Krim (1991). “What's this cat's story?: the best of Seymour Krim”, Paragon House Publishers

Seymour Krim

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“Freedom of speech includes the freedom to offend people.”
“It's the cynics who never get married.”
“If I could predict what my day would exactly look like, I would feel a little bit dead.”
“I am in love with this world . . . I have climbed its mountains, roamed its forests, sailed its waters, crossed its deserts, felt the sting of its frosts, the oppression of its heats, the drench of its rains, the fury of its winds, and always have beauty and joy waited upon my goings and comings.”

Source : John Burroughs (1924). “Summit of the years”
“Despite my exhaustion I have a devil of a time getting to sleep because of the rats above my bed and a pig who lives beneath my room...”
“It is a great mistake for men to give up paying compliments, for when they give up saying what is charming, they give up thinking what is charming.”
“The whole story is about change. We are very lucky that the earth's history is recorded in fossilized remains. And we can see the changes. Unfortunately, there will always be gaps in our knowledge, but there is no doubt that we and everything living today has evolved.”

Source : Interview, content.time.com. April 11, 1999.
“Going into that race I was going for the world record, just quietly, but I wasn't feeling at my best all week so it was hard to determine what would happen. I could not believe it, I went into shock, I'm still in shock.”

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