"Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred."

-- Walter Benjamin

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“I watch a lot of TV. That's how I spend most of my time outside of work. If I had more time, I would fill it 100 percent with watching TV.”

Source : "Profile: Luis von Ahn". Interview with Neil DeGrasse Tyson, www.pbs.org. June 30, 2009.
“I mean, sometimes I hate interviews because I always feel like I sound stupid.”
“Look for the extraordinary in the ordinary.”
“The things two people do to each other they remember. If they stay together, it's not because they forget; it's because they forgive.”
“It's no use trying to be clever-we are all clever here; just try to be kind-a little kind.”
“At night the cries of cats making love or fighting, their caterwauling in the dark, told us that the world was pure emotion, flung back and forth among its creatures, the agony of the one-eyed Siamese no different from that of the Lisbon girls, and even the trees plunged in feeling.”
“I'm nothing you can catch now. I am black powder, I am singe, I am the bomb that bursts the night.”

Source : A.M. Homes (2012). “The End Of Alice”, p.149, Granta Books
“When you're out of willpower you call on stubbornness, that's the trick.”

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