"Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep."

-- Alan Paton

“Ants offer special advantages for some important kinds of basic biological research. The colony is a superorganism. It can be analyzed as a coherent unit and compared with the organism in the design of experiments, with the individuals treated as the rough analogues of cells.”
“This modern mania for interfering in other's lives, usually under the guise of health and safety concerns, is highly irritating and counterproductive. Down with the nanny state.”
“Your trousers are on fire. I would have told you, but you so dislike advice...”
“When you are there, you are. With words, you aren't.”
“The pleasure of sport was so often the chance to indulge the cessation of time itself--the pitcher dawdling on the mound, the skier poised at the top of a mountain trail, the basketball player with the rough skin of the ball against his palm preparing for a foul shot, the tennis player at set point over his opponent--all of them savoring a moment before committing themselves to action.”

Source : George Plimpton (1994). “The Best of Plimpton”, p.48, Atlantic Monthly Press
“Knowing one was comprised of recycled matter only and that selfhood was a delusion did not take away the aching of the heart.”
“A harsh reality of newspaper editing is that the deadlines don't allow for the polish that you expect in books or even magazines”
“The gentle fair on nervous tea relies, Whilst gay good-nature sparkles in her eyes; An inoffensive scandal fluttering round, Too rough to tickle, and too light to wound.”

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