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“If only [there] really was a door and [you] could walk through it into another life, where threads didn't snarl and stitches didn't go all tight and tiny. Where people loved you and didn't leave you for someone else.”
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“I must admit to being greatly influenced by Joseph Campbell's The Hero With a Thousand Faces.”
Source : "A Conversation with Norman Spinrad, Author of THE DRUID KING". Interview, www.penguinrandomhouse.com. August 10, 2004.
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“When the soldier returns from the wars, even though he has white hair, he very soon finds a young wife. But a woman has only one summer; if she does not make hay while the sun shines, no one will afterwards have anything to say to her, and she spends her days consulting oracles that never send her a husband.”
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“Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.”
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“There is very little sense that anybody really knows what works or why. But that's not a shock. And I don't think market research would solve that.”
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“God bless the man who first invented sleep!" So Sancho Panza said and so say I; And bless him, also, that he didn't keep His great discovery to himself, nor try To make it, as the lucky fellow might A close monopoly by patent-right.”
Source : John Godfrey Saxe (1864). “Poems”, p.184
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“Why will we struggle to attain, and strive, When all we gain is but an empty dream?-- Better, unto my thinking, doth it seem To end it all and let who will survive; To find at last all beauty is but dust; That love and sorrow are the very same; That joy is only suffering's sweeter name; And sense is but the synonym of lust. Far better, yea, to me it seems to die; To set glad lips against the lips of Death-- The only thing God gives that comforteth, The only thing we do not find a lie.”
Source : Madison Julius Cawein, “The Land Of Illusion”
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“Waves from moving sources: Adagio. Andante. Allegro moderato.”
Source : "Electromagnetic Theory, Volume III". Book by Oliver Heaviside, Pub. Co London, p. 1; "The Electrician", 1912.