"All the arts, which have a tendency to raise man in the scale of being, have a certain common band of union, and are connected, if I may be allowed to say so, by blood-relationship with one another."

-- Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“He always seemed to women different from what he was, and they loved in him not himself, but the man created by their imagination, whom they had been eagerly seeking all their lives; and afterwards, when they noticed their mistake, they loved him all the same.”
“A lot of people say Iâ€™m bent and Iâ€™ve heard it so many times Iâ€™ve almost learned to accept it ... I couldnâ€™t stand to be thought of as a big butch lady. But I know Iâ€™m as perfectly capable of being swayed by a girl as by a boy. More and more people feel that way and I donâ€™t see why I shouldnâ€™t.”
“In my hometown, the sky seemed endless . . . but there was nothing to see.”
“Work is the curse of the drinking classes.”
“I see a good marriage as being like two tall trees growing beside each other, each nourishing the grace of the other.”

Source : Lawrence W. Fagg (2009). “Pauses: Reflections on Science, Spirituality, and the Fine Art of Living”, p.39, Andrews McMeel Publishing
“I am a zombie fan, but all of the zombie stories Ive enjoyed started when the dead rose and ended three days later with everybody looking exhausted. I was thinking, What happens in 20 years?”
“You don't even have to win a championship every year to draw the fans. You just have to show you're really trying.”
“And then I went round the corner and there's a Van Gogh portrait, and you just think, well, this is another level. A higher level, actually. I love the Sargent, but it's not the level of Van Gogh.”

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