"Contemporary audiences, other than those making a deliberate historical leap, would find, say, the 1931 'Dracula' impossibly slow."

-- Andrew Tudor

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“I don't even think twice about wearing a swimsuit because it's always been a part of my lifestyle.”
“I can hear the library humming in the night, a choir of authors murmuring inside their books along the unlit, alphabetical shelves, Giovanni Pontano next to Pope, Dumas next to his son, each one stitched into his own private coat, together forming a low, gigantic chord of language.”
“I know who Jack Whittaker is. And some days I don’t like who I am.”
“You lose such a lot of time just sleeping ... when you might just be living! ... It seems such a pity we can't live nights too.”
“And that's how we ended up discovering the evil horses that threatened all of humanity.”
“Rigging is like Zen meditation. You must bend over the boat until your back is breaking, until your brain is filled with numbers and fractions of numbers, until you can accurately measure an oarlock's pitch without bothering to use the pitch meter. Only then will you see the way of eternal rigging happiness.”
“Understanding of our fellow human beings...becomes fruitful only when it is sustained by sympathetic feelings in joy and sorrow.”
“Society established gold and silver as a circulating medium and as a legal tender in order that exchanges of commodities might be facilitated; but society blundered in so doing; for, by this very act, it gave to a certain class of men the power of saying what exchanges shall, and what exchanges shall not, be facilitated by means of this very circulating medium. The monopolizers of othe precious metals have an undue power over the community: they can say whether money shall, or shall not, be permitted to exercise its legitimate functions.”

Source : William Batchelder Greene (1875). “Socialistic, Communistic, Mutualistic, and Financial Fragments”, p.39

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