"My other bodily ailments have become mere matters of history."

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Source : William Banting (2005). “Letter on Corpulence”, p.50, Cosimo, Inc.

William Banting

“He never said "Don't tell your mama." He never had to say it. I did not know how to tell anyone what I felt, what scared me and shamed me... (109)”
“Samba rhythm is a great one to sing on, but it's also got some other suggestions in it, an undercurrent of being primitive - because it is a primitive African, South American, Afro-whatever-you-call-that rhythm. So to white people, it has a very sinister thing about it.”
“The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.”
“Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.”

Source : Martin Heidegger (1999). “Contributions to Philosophy: From Enowning”, p.307, Indiana University Press
“The weight of a fabric is inconsequential, since seasonal dressing is all about layering.”
“I used to find great difficulty in drawing feet.”
“Obviously we don't have 300 million people. We haven't got a big army. We don't have Hollywood. We're a medium small-sized country. We have to do what medium small-sized countries do, which-even though we're not smarter than other people-is to make ourselves seem to be smarter. We have to work harder and know more than other people.”
“There was no time to think, I just hit it”

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