"The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it."

-- Sinclair Lewis

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“I go through the text making sure I haven't used any big words. If I find any fancy adjectives have crept in, I replace them with small words like 'nice' and 'big'. I've liked these words ever since I was told not to use them in English class at school. After that, I check that the sentences are short so as people won't get confused and I shorten all the chapters so they won't get bored. I can't read anything complicated these days, my attention span is too short. Everyone else probably feels the same.”
“Poets need be in no degree jealous of the geologists. The stony science, with buried creations for its domains, and half an eternity charged with its annals, possesses its realms of dim and shadowy fields, in which troops of fancies already walk like disembodied ghosts in the old fields of Elysium, and which bid fair to be quite dark and uncertain enough for all the purposes of poesy for centuries to come.”

Source : Hugh Miller, Harriet Myrtle (1859). “Popular Geology: A Series of Lectures Read Before the Philosophical Institution of Edinburgh, with Descriptive Sketches from a Geologist's Portfolio”, p.127
“My limits are limitless. I find my limits every time I act.”

Source : "Crudup's in the Running / Star of `Without Limits' could be the Next Big Thing" by Ruthe Stein, www.sfgate.com. October 04, 1998.
“In the West, you take people at their word.”
“The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.”
“If you're going to fail...FAIL FORWARD”
“History was a trash bag of random coincidences torn open in a wind. Surely, Watt with his steam engine, Faraday with his electric motor, and Edison with his incandescent light bulb did not have it as their goal to contribute to a fuel shortage some day that would place their countries at the mercy of Arab oil.”

Source : Joseph Heller (1997). “Good as Gold”, p.72, Simon and Schuster
“Immodest words admit of no defence, For want of decency is want of sense.”

Source : 'Essay on Translated Verse' (1684) l. 113

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