"Being a professional writer is not an easy way to make a living."

-- Tracy Kidder

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“Someone once described the pitching of a no-hit game as like catching lighting in a bottle.”
“Sometimes one can be so closely involved with things that the larger context is lost to view.”
“I would never wear fur.”
“One good Man may take another's Word, if they so agree, but a whole Nation ought never to trust to any Honesty, but what is built upon Necessity; for unhappy is the People, and their Constitution will be ever precarious, whose Welfare must depend upon the Virtues and Consciences of Ministers and Politicians.”

Source : "The Fable of the Bees". Book by Bernard Mandeville. Remark Q, pp. 207-208, 1732.
“Nothing misleads people like the truth.”
“Sweetheart, all men are animals. Feed us, pet us, and use a firm hand, and we'll worship at your feet.”
“The combination of such characters, some, as the sacral ones, altogether peculiar among Reptiles, others borrowed, as it were, from groups now distinct from each other, and all manifested by creatures far surpassing in size the largest of existing reptiles, will, it is presumed, be deemed sufficient ground for establishing a distinct tribe or sub-order of Saurian Reptiles, for which I would propose the name of Dinosauria.”

Source : Report of the Eleventh Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science "Report on British Fossil Reptiles" (1842)
“The coherent way of investigating any field is to examine its possible relatedness to other things.”

Source : Frederick Sommer, University of Arizona. Center for Creative Photography (1984). “Sommer: . Images”

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