"The sand looked so beautiful then, so many little individual grains in the light of the night, giving the watcher the childhood feeling of infinite things finally understood, the humiliating feeling of the watcher's nothingness."

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Source : Ayi Kwei Armah (1988). “The Beautyful Ones are Not Yet Born”, p.72, Heinemann

Ayi Kwei Armah

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“There never comes a point where a theory can be said to be true. The most that one can claim for any theory is that it has shared the successes of all its rivals and that it has passed at least one test which they have failed.”

Source : "Philosophy in the Twentieth Century" by A.J. Ayer, (p. 133), 1982.
“Hank Williams was one of the greatest writers of all time, and it's very sad that his career lasted for only six years.”
“Without the piano my life would be a disaster - nobody would hold me in any regard. It's the thing that saved me.”

Source : "'A labour of love'" by Jools Holland, www.theguardian.com. October 10, 2008.
“I don't know, I just got a feeling about her. You know when a song comes on and you just gotta dance?”
“Nothing real stands between you and your happiness, only illusion and confusion.”
“At seventy-three I learned a little about the real structure of animals, plants, birds, fishes and insects. Consequently when I am eighty I'll have made more progress. At ninety I'll have penetrated the mystery of things. At a hundred I shall have reached something marvellous, but when I am a hundred and ten everything I do, the smallest dot, will be alive.”
“Fortunately for me, I was able to see the newspaper and saw that they were hiring in a new program called the Cedar Program, and I recall going to one of my Olympic buddies and saying, "Hey, man, this might be a shot in the arm for us. Let's go down and apply for these Cedar jobs."I took a job as a gardener caretaker.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“We live, I think, in the century of science and, perhaps, even in the century of physics.”

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