"you're never more alive than when you're almost dead."

-- Tim O'Brien

“Biocides, for example, are designed to kill bacteriaâ€”it's not a benign material.”
“I've always worked a bit like a cook in a big restaurant, where you've got lots and lots of things laid out and you go and look into one cauldron and you look into the other and you see what's coming to the boil.”
“I'd always been a news junkie, always read lots of newspapers and watched the Sunday morning news shows on TV and felt strongly about issues of power, control, sexuality and race.”
“The one I spend the most amount of time in is a Ford Galaxy, which my tour manager drives me around in and which I drive at the weekends. What I love about the Galaxy is the amount of space I get. I can get so much done in the back of it while we're on the road, it's like my mobile office! I've also got a Ford B-Max, which I'm a total evangelist about. It's got rear doors that slide. Now, I can't park, so those are the best things ever. You can park right up against a tree and still get out!”
“I don't like to read books where I feel as though I've stepped into the middle of things and don't know what's going on. I like to see characters I've met before, but I don't want to feel left out because I haven't read other books in the series.”
“Some people have food, but no appetite; others have an appetite, but no food. I have both. The Lord be praised.”
“I think abortion should be mandatory for about 30 years,”
“A student never forgets an encouraging private word, when it is given with sincere respect and admiration.”

Source : William Lyon Phelps (1912). “Teaching in School and College”

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