"...So please, be tolerant of those who describe a sporting moment as their best ever. We do not lack imagination, nor have we had sad and barren lives; it is just that real life is paler, duller, and contains less potential for unexpected delirium."

-- Nick Hornby

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“The island Mayo is generally barren, being dry, as I said; and the best of it is but a very indifferent soil.”

Source : William Dampier (1703). “A New Voyage Round the World”, p.21
“In everything I do, I find some of myself, or a lot of myself, and put it into the role.”
“We think about mortality so little, these days, except to flail hysterically at it with trendy forms of exercise and high-fiber cereals and nicotine patches.”
“My first playpen was a cardboard box.”
“I have said and I repeat, at the risk of being sacrilegious, that the gas chambers are a detail of the history of the Second World War.”
“Jumping from boulder to boulder and never falling, with a heavy pack, is easier than it sounds; you just can't fall when you get into the rhythm of the dance.”
“When people go to the theater, people say they want something different, but what they really want is something the same with slight permutations. To really not know what is going to happen next is a hard thing.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“Well, the economic recovery was successful even though the Democrats opposed the reforms every step of the way. And it is clear the Democrats have no clear plan to strengthen our economy, as Republicans do.”

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