"It is an agreeable and yet a painful sense of novelty to stand for the first time in the midst of a people whose language and manners are different from one's own."

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Source : Bayard Taylor (1875). “Views A-foot: Or, Europe Seen with Knapsack and Staff”, p.88

Bayard Taylor

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“Everything that's realistic has some sort of ugliness in it. Even a flower is ugly when it wilts, a bird when it seeks its prey, the ocean when it becomes violent.”

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“It seems to me that this is the true test for poetry: - that it should go beneath experience, as prose can never do, and awaken an apprehension of things we have never, and can never, know in the actuality.”
“To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.”
“As someone who sends texts messages more or less non-stop, I enjoy one particular aspect of texting more than anything else: that it is possible to sit in a crowded railway carriage laboriously spelling out quite long words in full, and using an enormous amount of punctuation, without anyone being aware of how outrageously subversive I am being.”
“Using your intuition is such a wonderful way to live. It's very exciting.”
“Conservatives are much more comfortable supporting the leader who's in power than liberals.”

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“If you don't feel the blues, then you're not listening. Then you're just a professor or something.”

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“Courageous convictions will drag the dream into existence.”

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