"It is easy to forget now, how effervescent and free we all felt that summer. Everything fades: the shimmer of gold over White Cove; the laughter in the night air; the lavender early morning light on the faces of skyscrapers, which had suddenly become so heroically tall. Every dawn seemed to promise fresh miracles, among other joys that are in short supply these days. And so I will try to tell you, while I still remember, how it was then, before everything changed-that final season of the era that roared."

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Source : Anna Godbersen (2010). “Bright Young Things”, p.1, Harper Collins

Anna Godbersen

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“One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.”
“The useless search of philosophers for a cause of the universe is a regressus in infinitum (a stepping backwards into the infinite) and resembles climbing up an endless ladder, the recurring question as to the cause of the cause rendering the attainment of a final goal impossible.”

Source : Ludwig Büchner (1884). “Force and Matter: Or, Principles of the Natural Order of the Universe. With a System of Morality Based Thereon”
“My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.”
“There's nightingales calling, shooting stars falling, like jewels in the rain.”

Source : Song: Everytime, Album: Sell, Sell, Sell, 1996
“For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.”

Source : Jeri Smith-Ready (2010). “Shade”, p.108, Simon and Schuster
“I grew up going to a real small missionary baptist church. We would sing a lot of the old standards... the hymns and everything. Those songs are still my favorite and are pretty timeless.”
“No one could have prepared for me BBQ on pizza. I mean, both are great. But together? It was incredible.”

Source : "'I've Never, Ever Liked Elvis': an Interview with Laker Pau Gasol". Interview with Dan Gurle, bleacherreport.com. May 8, 2008.
“If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.”

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