"Birds in flight, claims the architect Vincenzo Volentieri, are not between places - they carry their places with them. We never wonder where they live: they are at home in the sky, in flight. Flight is their way of being in the world."

-- Geoff Dyer

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“People here in Los Angeles are disgusted now about a sex scandal involving Arnold Schwarzenegger. Apparently for seven years, he carried on a sexual relationship with his own wife.”
“A healthy degree of party unity among Democrats and Republicans has deteriorated into bitter partisan warfare.”
“When you do something you are proud of, praise yourself for it.”
“They (the poets) are to us in a manner the fathers and authors of the wisdom.”
“Doing everything with one arm, being well-known, and having a book and a movie, it's fairly abnormal. As far as just not having to worry about past experiences, I've healed very well.”
“It became very clear that Hanoi was in effect strategically running the Viet Cong operation.”
“We all have secret lives. The life of excretion; the world of inappropriate sexual fantasies; our real hopes, our terror of death; our experience of shame; the world of pain; and our dreams. No one else knows these lives. Consciousness is solitary. Each person lives in that bubble universe that rests under the skull, alone.”

Source : Kim Stanley Robinson (2009). “Galileo's Dream”, p.359, Spectra
“I think I have a very detailed sense of observation. I am interested in the details of people's lives and what information these details give.”

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