"I... wonder what it is in the New York air that enables me to sit up till all hours of the night in an atmosphere which in London would make a horse dizzy, but here merely clears the brain."

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Source : James Agate (1946). “A Shorter Ego: The Autobiography of James Agate”

James Agate

#Horse Quotes #New York Quotes #Night Quotes

“The best quick tip in golf is to focus on your rhythm and balance.”
“But the individual was not a tool for something. He was the maker of tools. He was the one who must build. Even for the best purpose it is criminal to turn an individual into simply a means for some ultimate end. A society in which the dignity of the individual is destroyed cannot hope to be a decent society.”
“Donâ€™t pursue business just for your own gain. Only answer the calls for help.”
“I'm a quite serious actor who doesn't mind being ridiculously comic.”
“What basic psychological distortion can be found in every civilization of which we know anything? The only psychological force capable of producing these perversions is morality - the concept of right and wrong. The re-interpretation and eventual eradication of the concept of right and wrong are the belated objectives of nearly all of psychotherapy.”
“I am not married, no. I wasn't really into the notion when I was younger, but now I think a proposal is the ultimate romantic gesture.”
“Since writing JAWS, I've been lucky enough to do close to forty television shows about wildlife in the oceans, and yes, I have been attacked by sea creatures once in a while.”
“It is in vain to hope to please all alike. Let a man stand with his face in what direction he will, he must necessarily turn his back on one half of the world.”

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