"Surely everyone is aware of the divine pleasures which attend a wintry fireside; candles at four o'clock, warm hearthrugs, tea, a fair tea-maker, shutters closed, curtains flowing in ample draperies to the floor, whilst the wind and rain are raging audibly without."

-- Thomas de Quincey

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“I have a big ego, and I'm a confident person, but when it comes down to being a jerk, that doesn't work for me, I tried it... for about ten years.”
“As soon as chemists have a definite conception of the internal structure of the molecule of an organic compound, they are able to tackle the task of producing these substances by artificial methods, i.e. by synthesis, as we call it.”
“It takes the black keys and the white keys both, to make perfect harmony.”
“For me, tango was always for the ear rather than the feet.”
“What reading does, ultimately, is keep alive the dangerous and exhilarating idea that life is not a sequence of lived moments, but a destiny.”

Source : Sven Birkerts (2006). “The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age”, p.101, Macmillan
“There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you.”
“It was the kiss by which all the others of his life would be judged and found wanting.”
“The road to Easy Street goes through the sewer.”

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