"Man is fallible, but maybe men are less so."

--

Atul Gawande

“If people think they can elicit from me whatever terms they want, they are mistaken.”
“I'm ready to do some classics. Maybe I wasn't in the beginning. I weighed 179 pounds when I got to New York, and I had that thick Southern accent. I still talk Southern, but I can do without it.”
“You have to face reality, and coming off 4-12, you're not going to be the national draw you were previously. But for 13 years, we were a pretty good draw.”
“I sometimes still go out hunting for bad weather, flying low in simple airplanes to explore the inner reaches of the clouds. Less experienced pilots occasionally join me, not to learn formal lessons about weather flying, but with a more advanced purpose in mind - to accompany me in the slow accumulation of experience through circumstances that never repeat in a place that defies mastery.”

Source : William Langewiesche (1998). “Inside the Sky: A Meditation on Flight”, Pantheon
“You have to feel your own personal truth with a little â€˜tâ€™ â€“ your sadness, rage, frustration for example -- in order to get to the Truth with a big â€˜Tâ€™.”
“I should like to write about what happens when fictive people encounter and are embellished by real people.”

Source : Jean Giono, John Cumming (2001). “An Italian Journey”, p.30, Northwestern University Press
“It is clear that history differs from the other disciplines in having an approach and not an area of its own.”

Source : Leonard Krieger, M. L. Brick (1992). “Ideas and Events: Professing History”, p.152, University of Chicago Press
“People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.”

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