"Whenever the pressure of our complex city life thins my blood and numbs my brain, I seek relief in the trail; and when I hear the coyote wailing to the yellow dawn, my cares fall from me - I am happy."

-- Hamlin Garland

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“The past exists only in our memories, the future only in our plans. The present is our only reality.”
“London is a city that sleeps too much. This is the mould of its quality. A magnetic contract: to reinvent itself on the other side of dream, each day. And such dreams, smouldering against the tidal spine of the river, telling and retelling the tales that must be told to manifest a city's bones. Whispering the night architecture back into stone.”

Source : Iain Sinclair (2007). “London: City of Disappearances”, Penguin Global
“I may juggle the composition, as the strength of a picture is in the composition. Or I may play with the light. But I never interfere with the subject. The subject has to fall into place on its own and, if I don't like it, I don't have to print it”
“The toughest part of the whole damn sport is the X Factor. To me, the X factor is your soul. It's your courage. It's your unique driving force. Suppose for a moment that [you] and I were [running]. Suppose that in every possible way-physical and mental-we were identical. Which one of us would emerge as the champion?”
“He who truly believes that which prompts him to an action has looked upon the action to lust after it, he has committed it already in his heart.”

Source : William Kingdon Clifford, Leslie Stephen, Frederick Pollock (2011). “Lectures and Essays”, p.181, Cambridge University Press
“Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile.”

Source : Billy Sunday, William Thomas Ellis (1917). “Billy Sunday, the Man and His Message: With His Own Words which Have Won Thousands for Christ”
“I view people two ways. They're either eye-for-an-eye people or they are turn-the-cheek people.”
“It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.”

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