"Simple pleasures are the last healthy refuge in a complex world."

-- Oscar Wilde

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“Among the older records, we find chapter after chapter of which we can read the characters, and make out their meaning: and as we approach the period of man's creation, our book becomes more clear, and nature seems to speak to us in language so like our own, that we easily comprehend it. But just as we begin to enter on the history of physical changes going on before our eyes, and in which we ourselves bear a part, our chronicle seems to fail us-a leaf has been torn out from nature's record, and the succession of events is almost hidden from our eyes.”

Source : William Wordsworth, Adam Sedgwick (1842). “A complete guide to the Lakes, comprising minute directions for the tourist, with mr. Wordsworth's Description of the scenery of the country, &c. and Three letters upon the geology of the Lake district, by prof. Sedgwick”
“People tell me it was a great left hook, but I wouldn't know. I never saw it”
“Every now and then we find a special friend, who never lets us down, who understands it all, reaches out each time you fall, you're the best friend that I've found.”

Source : Song: Remember Me This Way, Album: Jordan Hill, 1996
“And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.”
“It's expensive to keep communism alive today. I've already got a huge foreign debt staring me in the face, and I can't reduce it by exporting tomatoes or toilet paper. We should be making dollars any way we can. And we should be exporting arms any way and every way, openly and secretly, legally or by smuggling, I don't care how.”

Source : "Red Horizons: Chronicles of a Communist Spy Chief". Book by Ion Mihai Pacepa, p. 119, 1987.
“The sick do not ask if the hand that smoothes their pillow is pure, nor the dying care if the lips that touch their brow have known the kiss of sin.”
“When I started, there was more of a cultural assumption that many readers would find gay characters irrelevant or repugnant.”
“I've always liked using flutes and clarinets. Any time I can use those, I'm really happy.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com

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