"Old friends, we say, are best, when some sudden disillusionment shakes our faith in a new comrade."

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Source : Gelett Burgess (1916). “The Romance of the Commonplace”

Gelett Burgess

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“I'm a simple, simple man.”
“Fettucini alfredo is macaroni and cheese for adults.”
“Art is precisely that condition which pertains when, after all analysis and reduction to parts has taken place, there remains a 'quality' which is more than the sum of those parts, which could not exist in any other form, and which cannot be caught, or held, or contained.”
“I love Italy and I say I am from Italy wherever I go.”
“Your mind is just like a parachute ! if you don't open it, it won't work !”
“Lampard, for me, was a marvellous servant for Chelsea, but I didn't think of him as an elite international footballer. And I am one of the few who felt Gerrard was not a top, top player.”
“For hundreds of pages the closely-reasoned arguments unroll, axioms and theorems interlock. And what remains with us in the end? A general sense that the world can be expressed in closely-reasoned arguments, in interlocking axioms and theorems.”

Source : Michael Frayn (2009). “Constructions: Making Sense of Things”, Faber & Faber
“There never was a moment in my life, when I felt so in the Presence, as I do now. I feel as if the Almighty were so real, and so near, that I could reach out and touch Him, as I could this wonderful work of His, if I dared. I feel like saying to Him: 'To the extent of my brain power I realize Your presence, and all it is in me to comprehend of Your power. Help me to learn, even this late, the lessons of Your wonderful creations. Help me to unshackle and expand my soul to the fullest realization of Your wonders. Almighty God, make me bigger, make me broader!”

Source : Gene Stratton-Porter (2006). “A Girl of the Limberlost”, p.208, Applewood Books

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