"If you were a woman, all I'd have to say is 'Colin Firth in a wet shirt' and you'd say 'Ah."

--

Shannon Hale

“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.”
“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.
“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.”
“Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.”
“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.”
“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
“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”
“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.

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