"That grand old poem called Winter"

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Henry David Thoreau

#Winter Quotes #January Quotes

“I'm not going to play politics on the floor of the House of Commons.”
“I hadn't liked him at first. He did sort of grow on you after a while. Like the cosmopolitans. Or maybe because of the cosmopolitans.”
“In another thirty years people will laugh at anyone who tries to invent a language without closures, just as they'll laugh now at anyone who tries to invent a language without recursion.”

Source : The Perl Review Interview, April 7, 2005.
“If you breathed deep and set your mind to it, you could rise above your anger.”
“Racism is not dead. Definitely, there are these biases.”
“But the animation has become very good, and I think that a movie is not a book, and a book is not a movie.”
“I am firmly of the opinion that a large number of unmarried men, over the age of 24 years, is a dangerous element in any community.”

Source : William H. Gass (2014). “On Being Blue: A Philosophical Inquiry”, p.25, New York Review of Books
“I never go straight to the point if I can go the most difficult way. Why be simple when you can be complicated?”

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