"The wise traveler is he who is perpetually surprised."

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Vita Sackville-West

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“Architecture traditionally has been the slowest of art forms. It was not unusual for great cathedrals to take centuries to complete, with stylistic changes from Romanesque to Gothic or Renaissance to Baroque as common as the addition of chapels or spires. But because the function remained the same, the form could be flexible and its growth organic.”
“There is no dusk to be, There is no dawn that was, Only there's now, and now, And the wind in the grass.”

Source : Archibald MacLeish (1985). “Collected Poems, 1917-1982”, p.41, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“To me, there is no greater way to achieve clarity than to run alone, or share miles with a trusted friend.”
“I'm really attracted to strong women. Let me rephrase that, I'm really attracted to strong female characters.”
“People didn't really like McDonald's, same as her mum didn't really like Catholicism, but when you were new in town, at least it was a known quantity. So that'll be a Quarter-Pounder and a Communion Wafer meal-deal to go.”

Source : Christopher Brookmyre (2009). “Pandaemonium”, p.127, Hachette UK
“I don't know any skinny people who bully fat people. I just know skinny people who use fat people for rides.”
“He who interrupts the course of his spiritual exercises and prayer is like a man who allows a bird to escape from his hand; he can hardly catch it again.”
“The catalogue of miseries seems to cry out for commercial spots and a station break: the stuff of noonday soap opera.”

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