"When hundreds of thousands of people from all over the world went to the Yukon to look for gold, the original prospectors had already claimed most of it."

-- Howard Blum

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“The best books for a man are not always those which the wise recommend, but often those which meet the peculiar wants, the natural thirst of his mind, and therefore awaken interest and rivet thought.”
“The enemy is not the badly written page; it is the empty page the great advantage of a badly written page is that it can be rewritten. It can be improved. A blank page is zero. In fact, itâ€™s worse than zero, because it represents territory youâ€™re afraid, unwilling, or too lazy to explore. Avoid exploring this territory long enough, and youâ€™ll abandon your book.”
“It is precisely because I believe it is not possible to neatly separate the sexual from other sorts of relations that I find the movement to bar the sexual from pedagogy not only dangerous but supremely impractical.”

Source : Jane Gallop (2002). “Anecdotal Theory”, p.65, Duke University Press
“The chuckle is a perfectly acceptable form of laughter.”
“Are you, are you coming to the tree? Wear a necklace of rope, side by side with me. Strange things did happen here. No stranger would let it be if we met up At midnight in the hanging tree.”
“I am attracted to humans. But, of course...not many.”

Source : "Morrissey: 'Unfortunately, I Am Not Homosexual'" by Miriam Coleman, www.rollingstone.com. October 20, 2013.
“I regard the principle of conscription of life as a flat contradiction of all our cherished ideals of individual freedom, democratic liberty and Christian teaching.”
“...expatriated Americans, even Henry James himself, have always seemed to me somewhat anchorless, rudderless, drifting before thewind.”

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