"The education of the intellect is a great business; but an unconsecd intellect is the saddest sight on which the sun looks down."

-- Edwin Chadwick

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“How do you think it would feel to be obliged to ask for a seat-belt extender on an airplane? For the unfashionably bulgy, life is a series of small humiliations.”

Source : Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1997). “An Accidental Autobiography”, Mariner Books
“There is nothing you can do about the past except keep it there.”
“What I find so interesting about people is the choices they make, and how that effects their behavior, their sense of self and their relationships.”
“But I have never had the privilege of unhappiness in Happy Valley. California is about the good life. So a bad life there seems so much worse than a bad life anywhere else. Quality is an obsession thereâ€”good food, good wine, good movies, music, weather, cars. Those sound like the right things to shoot for, but the never-ending quality quest is a lot of pressure when youâ€™re uncertain and disorganized and, not least, broker than broke. Some afternoons a person just wants to rent Die Hard, close the curtains, and have Cheerios for lunch.”
“Extreme sports tricks are becoming increasingly complex, the courses ever more challenging and crashes all too common.”
“If a guy's talking to you at a club and you're having a long conversation, and then one of your friends comes up and he automatically devotes his attention to her, that's always a sign to look for. They're not always just doing it 'cause they're being 'friendly.' They want to look for somebody new.”

Source : "Brody Jenner Talks About Love". Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. December 21, 2007.
“Fiction is an elemental force, which has the power to shape reality in its own image - or images, I should say - because reality, like light, exists not only as a single point or particle, but also as an array of possibilities.”

Source : "Ruth Ozeki beats Thomas Pynchon to top Kitschie award" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. February 13, 2014.
“I was a kid who got picked on in school, and now the guys beating up those kids were wearing red caps and using my music to fuel that aggression. But if they listen to the lyrics, the aggression is targeted at them.”

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