"I am not especially good at remembering the actualities of the world I inhabit, but I have pretty strong associative memories of how it feels to live in that world, and to wonder at its weird machinations, at any age."

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Source : "Go Forth (Vol. 15)". Interview with Brandon Hobson, logger.believermag.com. September 10, 2013.

Scott Bradfield

#Strong Quotes #Memories Quotes #Age Quotes

“What I actually admire in Perl is its ability to provide a very successful abstraction of the horrible mess that is collectively called Unix.”
“A couple of compromises in a row and suddenly you're very far way from the person you thought you were.”
“Oddly enough, my mother was born in Southampton. I have roots in Southampton, Bridgehampton, Sag Harbor. My grandfather, her father, Stefano Rullo, when he came from Naples, he went to Pennsylvania and worked coal mines.”
“to the Indian, politics are what the weather is to an Englishman. Politics are an introduction to a stranger on a train, they are the standard filler for embarrassing silences in conversation, they are the inevitable small talk at any social gathering.”

Source : Santha Rama Rau (1945). “Home to India”
“The Lord will not wish to count my trophies, but my scars.”
“Trails need to be reconstructed. Please avoid building trails that go uphill.”
“For sixty years I have been forgetful every minute, but not for a second has this flowing toward me stopped or slowed.”
“If all the qualities which a painter took from the model for his picture were really taken, no person could be painted twice.”

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