"I have seen slower people than I am and more deliberate... and even quieter, and more listless, and lazier people than I am. But they were dead."

-- Mark Twain

“We frolic while 'tis May.”
“I grew up on genre - on Westerns, spy thrillers, sci-fi, fantasy novels, horror novels. Especially horror novels.”

Source : "The Infectious Benjamin Percy". Interview with Jennifer Sky, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 6, 2013.
“One does not study for a goal. The goal is a mere accident.”
“A modern teacher educates children to value their emotions.”
“If you want a simple strength and conditioning program, stick to the basics. Run your 400s and 800s, and do lots of power cleans and presses and long heavy sets of squats.”
“It depends. If I don't let you in, will you huff and puff and blow my house down?" She had no idea. "I'm more of a kick the door open and cut everyone inside to ribbons kind of wolf.”
“Just being in a room with myself is almost more stimulation than I can bear.”
“You have the sky overhead giving one light; then the reflected light from whatever reflects; then the direct light of the sun; so that, in the blending and suffusing of these several luminations, there is no such thing as a line to be seen anywhere.”

Source : Winslow Homer, Lloyd Goodrich (1973). “Winslow Homer”

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