"I have climbed to the top of the greasy pole!"

-- Benjamin Disraeli

“Tomorrow morning before we depart, I intend to land and see what can be found in the neighborhood.”

Source : Arnold Walter Lawrence, Christopher Columbus, Jean Young (1931). “Narratives of the Discovery of America”, New York, Cape
“The literature of the inner life is very largely a record of struggle with the inordinate passions of the social self.”

Source : Charles Horton Cooley (1964). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.248, Transaction Publishers
“Hold still," my father would say, while I held the ship in the bottle and he burned away the strings he'd raised the mast with and set the clipper ship free on its blue putty sea. And I would wait for him, recognizing the tension of that moment when the world in the bottle depended, solely, on me.”
“It's good to be comfortable with who you are and what you do.”
“What I do and where I come from, the kind of music that I'm making, it's definitely U.K. If I turned around and did a tune with Timbaland, it would be amazing, but it would be me kind of leaving where I'm coming from.”
“Stressful jobs, loveless marriages, bad food-most people kill themselves slowly every day.”

Source : Arthur Nersesian (2010). “Mesopotamia”, p.11, Akashic Books
“You know how in high school you do these plays and people come up after the show and they're really excited for you? Well, that's what's happening to me right now.”
“Philo Farnsworth invented TV at the age of 22.”

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