"Demanding historical (or scientific) veracity as a prerequisite for truth is another kind of tunnel vision. To do so is to mistake poetry for prose."

-- Charles Kimball

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“Science explained people, but could not understand them. After long centuries among the bones and muscles it might be advancing to knowledge of the nerves, but this would never give understanding”
“So while the name Redskins is only a bit offensive, itâ€™s extremely tacky and datedâ€”like an old aunt who still talks about â€˜colored peopleâ€™ or limps her wrist to suggest someoneâ€™s gay.”

Source : "Why Slate will no longer refer to Washington’s NFL team as the Redskins". www.slate.com. August 8, 2013.
“After my training wheels, my first real bike was a Schwinn, and my first time out, I rode down a hill, didnâ€™t know how to stop, and ran right into a tree. So, that was a nice experience ... like realizing, oh, there are brakes!”
“Extra-marital sex is as overrated as pre-marital sex. And marital sex, come to think of it.”

Source : Simon Gray (2013). “Simon Gray: Plays 2: Otherwise Engaged; Dog Days; Molly; Plaintiff and Defendants; Two Sundays; Pig in a Poke; Man in a Side Car”, p.370, Faber & Faber
“In music, all hearts are revealed to us.”

Source : Joseph Henry Shorthouse (1888). “A Teacher of the Violin: And Other Tales”
“I want to do a musical movie. Like Evita, but with good music.”
“If we would have had the 262 at our disposal - even with all the delays - if we could have had in '44, ah, let's say three hundred operational, that day we could have stopped the American daytime bombing offensive, that's for sure.”
“it is better in the long run to be cheated than to cheat. I have learned that there is no middle way.”

Source : Phyllis Bottome (1998). “Old Wine: A Novel”, p.39, Northwestern University Press

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