"Fight thou with shafts of silver, and o'ercome When no force else can get the masterdom"

-- Robert Herrick

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“Previous to this time I had never even a balloon except from a distance. Being interested in their construction, I was about to institute a thorough examination of all its parts, when the aeronaut announced that all was ready. He inquired whether I desired to go up alone, or he should accompany me. My desire, if frankly expressed, would have been not to go up at all; but if I was to go, company was certainly desirable. With an attempt at indifference, I intimated that he might go along.”
“We want far better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them.”

Source : Hypatia ch. 4 (1925)
“I feel most alive when I'm surrounded by family and friends, and when I am working.”
“Selection is the invention of the landscape painter.”

Source : 1789 Aphorisms on Art, no.237, (published 1831).
“Sometimes somebody has an amazing house party and you meet great people and you dance - I've had incredible experiences. But they have been so much fewer than the awful experiences where you're just standing around like, "Why did I come here? We're all just putting on a show for each other and I might as well be in a museum."”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“She comes by night, in fearsome flight, in garments black as pitch, the queen of doom upon her broom, the wild and wicked witch.”
“The production of obscurity in Paris compares to the production of motor cars in Detroit in the great period of American industry.”
“More than the Big Mac, Coca Cola, or Levi's 501 jeans, the dollar is surely the United States' signature export.”

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