"We were moderate, we will never know what it is to spill out our lives..."

-- James Salter

“If people can write to each other across space, why can they not write across time too?”

Source : Ahdaf Soueif (2012). “The Map of Love”, p.324, Bloomsbury Publishing
“Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together ... Speech is too often ... the act of quite stifling and suspending thought, so that there is none to conceal ... Speech is of Time, silence is of Eternity ... It is idle to think that, by means of words, any real communication can ever pass from one man to another ...”
“Situation comedy on television has thrived for years on 'canned' laughter, grafted by gaglines by technicians using records of guffawing audiences that have been dead for years.”
“I am as comfortless as a pilgrim with peas in his shoes - and as cold as Charity, Chastity or any other Virtue.”
“A whole generation of Americans will retire in poverty instead of prosperity, because they simply are not preparing for retirement now.”
“I want to make a name for myself.”
“Let us have love and more love; a love that melts all opposition, a love that conquers all foes, a love that sweeps away all barriers, a love that aboundeth in charity, a large-heartedness, tolerance, forgiveness and noble striving, a love that triumphs over all obstacles.”
“Philosophers are people who know less and less about more and more, until they know nothing about everything. Scientists are people who know more and more about less and less, until they know everything about nothing.”

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