"The historian amputates reality."

-- Gaetano Salvemini

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“And though my Lord hath lost his estate and been banished out of his country, yet neither despised poverty nor pinching necessity could make him break the bonds of friendship or weaken his loyal duty.”

Source : Margaret Cavendish (2002). “Bell in Campo and The Sociable Companions”, p.206, Broadview Press
“Everything creative is somewhat collaborative. If you're a painter and someone stretches your canvas, it was collaborative on some level. Ultimately I'm the writer for me, but also anytime one of my friends gets stuck with a bit, they can call me and I'm pretty good at helping them get there. I think we all work together on some level, but for the most part, we're on our own.”

Source : Source: www.golfdigest.com
“A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.”
“When women smoke, it is hard for them to quit because they are so worried about their weight; it's a vanity issue and a mindset.”
“Gude nicht, and joy be wi' you a'.”

Source : "Song: "Gude Nicht, etc."".
“And then, when I went into the Navy, there was no choice. You took about half of the hours during your naval training as naval courses and the other half were engineering.”
“It's understanding the intention of a composer that allows a producer and an arranger to make those moments speak”
“His contempt for humanity grew fiercer, and at last he came to realize that the world is made up mostly of fools and scoundrels. It became perfectly clear to him that he could entertain no hope of finding in someone else the same aspirations and antipathies; no hope of linking up with a mind which, like his own, took pleasure in a life of studious decrepitude; no hope of associating an intelligence as sharp and wayward as his own with any author or scholar.”

Source : Joris-Karl Huysmans (1959). “Against nature: a new translation of À rebours”

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