"A few years later, my Uncle David took me to the Earle Theatre to hear Duke Ellington."

-- David Amram

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“Now man cannot live without some vision of himself. But still less can he live with a vision that is not true to his inner experience and inner feeling.”
“I realised that one might love him secretly with no hope of encouragement, which can be very enjoyable for the young or inexperienced.”

Source : Barbara Pym (2006). “Excellent Women”, p.73, Penguin
“Thermodynamics is a funny subject. The first time you go through it, you don't understand it at all. The second time you go through it, you think you understand it, except for one or two small points. The third time you go through it, you know you don't understand it, but by that time you are so used to it, it doesn't bother you any more.”

Source : "Physical Chemistry in Depth". Textbook by Johannes Karl Fink, p. 1, 1992.
“I am not a model the camera just went off by itself”
“Life in the [London] suburb is richer at the lower levels. At these levels the people are not self-conscious at all, they are at liberty to be as eccentric as they please, they do not know that they are eccentric.”
“In his heart, he knew that there was no reason to be impolite to someone, even if they did work for you. There was such a thing as manners after all.”

Source : John Boyne (2012). “The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas”, p.66, Random House
“There are not many people on Team Gary. Actually, it's two people. My kids.”
“If you're on a freeway and want to know if you're being followed, what you do is enormously vary your speed. You accelerate to 100 and slow down to 30 and then accelerate again. In a city, you make a lot of turns against the stream of traffic. You go around a roundabout twice.”

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