"You only live a short time... and you are dead a long time."

-- Johan Huizinga

“Only sound common sense, respectable fellow that he is, in the homely realm of his own four walls, has very wonderful adventures directly he ventures out into the wide world of research.”
“It is dark now. The snow is deep blue and the ocean nearly black. It is time for some music.”
“Art is not only the desire to tell one's secret; it is the desire to tell it and hide it at the same time.”

Source : Thornton Wilder (2009). “The Bridge of San Luis Rey and Other Novels, 1926-1948”
“A novel is what you call something that won't sell if you call it poems or short stories.”
“The Press blew, the public stared, hands flew out like a million little fishes after bread.”
“Starbucks has stores in America in many, many communities that are governed by many, many different municipalities. Starbucks cannot dictate to a municipality in Cincinnati or Kansas City or Sacramento how or why or when there should be a recycling program.”
“When we're in a human body, we don't care about universal collapse - instead, we care only about a meeting of the eyes, a glimpse of bare flesh, the caressing tones of a loved voice, joy, love, light, the orientation of a house plant, the shade of a paint stroke, the arrangement of hair.”
“I've used a cellphone exactly twice. Things move on. The world changes. And I don't know it”

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