"The man who walks alone is soon trailed by the F.B.I."

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Source : Wright Morris (1968). “A Bill of Rites, a Bill of Wrongs, a Bill of Goods”, [New York] : New American Library

Wright Morris

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“Certain stories we carry with us, events in our life, they define who we are. It's not a matter of getting over anything; we have to make the best of it.”
“The human mind has a natural tendency to explore what has passed in distant ages in scenes with which it is familiar: hence the taste for National and Local Antiquities. Geology gratifies a larger taste of this kind; it inquires into what may appropriately be termed the Antiquities of the Globe itself, and collects and deciphers what may be considered as the monuments and medals of its remoter eras.”

Source : William Buckland (1820). “Vindiciæ Geologicæ: The Connexion of Geology with Religion, Explained in an Inaugural Lecture Delivered Before University of Oxford, May 15, 1819, on the Endowment of Readership in Geology”, p.6
“Temptation has been here ever since the Garden of Eden.”
“I don't think about those things, really. I work hard on everything I do. Everything is a struggle, everything is hard, everything is difficult.”
“Calculus is the outcome of a dramatic intellectual struggle which has lasted for twenty-five hundred years.”
“Interplay and interaction are the integral parts of music - they're as important as the notes.”
“I've been working on Barb for a while. I looked at her as a sort of every woman. She's incredibly strong; she's incredibly generous. She's seemingly insane because she is in the situation of a polygamous relationship, but she had definite reasons to do it.”
“Since it is necessary for specific ideas to have definite and consequently as far as possible selected terms, I have proposed to call substances of similar composition and dissimilar properties isomeric, from the Greek ίσομερης (composed of equal parts).”

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