"Not deep the poet sees, but wide."

-- Matthew Arnold

“All still lifes are actually paintings of the world on the sixth day of creation, when God and the world were alone together, without man!”
“I think I had it in the back of my mind that I wanted to sound like a dry martini.”
“One may sigh for all that one loses in giving up the old religion... but the new irreligion is the manlier, honester and simpler thing, and affords a better throry of life and a more solid basis for morality.”
“I'm convinced that business success in the future starts with the question, What should I do with my life? Yes, that's right.... People don't succeed by migrating to a "hot" industry (one word: dotcom) or by adopting a particular career-guiding mantra (remember "horizontal careers"?). They thrive by focusing on the question of who they really are--and connecting that to work that they truly love (and, in so doing, unleashing a productive and creative power that they never imagined).”
“Shopping malls are liquid TVs for the end of the twentieth century. A whole micro-circuitry of desire, ideology and expenditure for processed bodies drifting through the cyber-space of ultracapitalism.”
“Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.”

Source : "Speeches of Adlai Ewing Stevenson", (p. 99), 1952.
“Personal experience, therefore, is everything in Zen. No ideas are intelligible to those who have no backing of experience.”
“Their house had real hardcover books in it, and you often saw them lying open on the sofa, the words still warm from being read.”

Source : "Loggerheads" by David Sedaris, www.newyorker.com. December 7, 2009.

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