"A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it."

-- Aldous Huxley

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“Iâ€™d love to be faster. Physically Iâ€™m limited, but Iâ€™ve survived by using my head.”
“I left home as soon as I could, when I was 18. I thought I was in love and got married - the press called it Prince Charming and Cinderella. He was a Hilton so I was the poor little Cinderella. And when I got a divorce nine months later I never told the court why, but he was cruel.”
“Mud is the most poetical thing in the world.”

Source : Reginald Horace Blyth (1984). “A History of Haiku: From the beginnings up to Issa”
“The works have to look like they're confident. But they also have to look sort of troubled. It's this weird thing: "Does that look confident and troubled?" It's a bit like difficult poetry.”
“There's a host of difficult issues here, and that's why when you mentioned at the top of the show that the committees were looking at this, that's where I think we should be going.”

Source : "Congress Should Decide Encryption Issue, Sen. Angus King Says". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. February 19, 2016.
“In a healthy individual, a broken bone that has healed properly is strongest where it was once broken. You have not lost any life, Henry told himself. You will still get your fair share of years. Yet the quality of his life changed. Once you've been struck by violence, you acquire companions that never leave you entirely: Suspicion, Fear, Anxiety, Despair, Joylessness. The natural smile is taken from you and the natural pleasures you once enjoyed lose their appeal.”
“Sorry can be the hardest word when you know you're wrong.”

Source : Song: Over, Album: Come Closer, 2006
“Sam Snead did to the tee-shot what Roger Bannister did to the four-minute mile.”

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