"I'd come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language."

-- Jean-Paul Sartre

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“[Otto Struve] made the remark once that he never looked at the spectrum of a star, any star, where he didn't find something important to work on.”
“Constant muscular activity was natural for the child, and, therefore, the immense effort of the drillmaster teachers to make children sit still was harmful and useless.”
“Are you aware it is private property? Why you'll be asking be to bomb Essen next.”
“I can't believe I was a fat person for most of my life.”

Source : "Ricki Lake: ‘I Can’t Believe I Was Fat’" by Liz Mcneil, people.com. November 30, 2008.
“Death is only frightening from the near side.”
“'Hunger' definitely changed my life, in terms of being recognized by filmmakers, since that was very much a filmmakers' film.”
“His smellâ€”the scent of a demon, cinnamon incense, amber muskâ€”wrapped around me, filled my lungs. I felt like I could breathe again, without every breath being tainted by the stench of dying cells. The smell of him seemed to coat my abused insides with peace, and flow down into the middle of my body to spread through my veins. I filled my lungs again. While I could, before what was undoubtedly a hallucination vanished.”
“Love is the only real patriation, and without one's dear one sits in a dreary and boring exile.”

Source : Sylvia Townsend Warner, Valentine Ackland, Susanna Pinney (1998). “I'll stand by you: selected letters of Sylvia Townsend Warner and Valentine Ackland : with narrative by Sylvia Townsend Warner”, Random House (UK)

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