“ One belongs to New York instantly, one belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years. ”
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“ Le Corbusier was the sort of relentlessly rational intellectual that only France loves wholeheartedly, the logician who flies higher and higher in everdecreasing concentric circles until, with one last, utterly inevitable induction, he disappears up his own fundamental aperture and emerges in the fourth dimension as a needlethin umber bird. ”
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“ (W)hat I write when I force myself is generally just as good as what I write when I'm feeling inspired. It's mainly a matter of forcing yourself to write. ”
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“ (W)hat I write when I force myself is generally just as good as what I write when I'm feeling inspired. It's mainly a matter of forcing yourself to write. ”
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“ The sky turned a deep purple and all at once the stars and moon came out — and the sun shone at the same time. He had reached a layer of the upper atmosphere where the air was too thin to contain reflecting dust particles. ”
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“ The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it. ”
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“ The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it. ”
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“ What is it that makes a man willing to sit up on top of an enormous Roman candle, such as a Redstone, Atlas, Titan or Saturn rocket, and wait for someone to light the fuse? ”
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“ What is it that makes a man willing to sit up on top of an enormous Roman candle, such as a Redstone, Atlas, Titan or Saturn rocket, and wait for someone to light the fuse? ”
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“ The attitude is we live and let live. This is actually an amazing change in values in a rather short time and it's an example of freedom from religion. ”
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“ I think it's the only completely American sport that there is. Most of the team sports are a variation on the old medieval tournaments, but stock car racing is so American. It's astounding to me how many people are interested in stock car racing. ”
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“ What is it that makes a man willing to sit up on top of an enormous Roman candle, such as a Redstone, Atlas, Titan or Saturn rocket, and wait for someone to light the fuse? ”
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“ Over the past ten years, for the first time, intelligence had become socially correct for girls. ”
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“ America - It is a fabulous country, the only fabulous country; it is the only place where miracles not only happen, but where they happen all the time. ”
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“ Over the past ten years, for the first time, intelligence had become socially correct for girls. ”
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“ There has been a time on earth when poets had been young and dead and famous - and were men. But now the poet as the tragic child of grandeur and destiny had changed. The child of genius was a woman, now, and the man was gone. ”
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“ The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence. ”
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“ The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence. ”
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“ What is it that makes a man willing to sit up on top of an enormous Roman candle, such as a Redstone, Atlas, Titan or Saturn rocket, and wait for someone to light the fuse? ”
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“ I think it's the only completely American sport that there is. Most of the team sports are a variation on the old medieval tournaments, but stock car racing is so American. It's astounding to me how many people are interested in stock car racing. ”
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“ To a man of sixty… one of the grimmest reminders of the Reaper's approach comes when his doctors, the people who have attended to his body for decades, begin retiring on him… or dying on him… or both. ”
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“ To a man of sixty… one of the grimmest reminders of the Reaper's approach comes when his doctors, the people who have attended to his body for decades, begin retiring on him… or dying on him… or both. ”
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“ The attitude is we live and let live. This is actually an amazing change in values in a rather short time and it's an example of freedom from religion. ”
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“ The attitude is we live and let live. This is actually an amazing change in values in a rather short time and it's an example of freedom from religion. ”
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“ What is it that makes a man willing to sit up on top of an enormous Roman candle, such as a Redstone, Atlas, Titan or Saturn rocket, and wait for someone to light the fuse? ”
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“ Las Vegas is the only town in the world whose skyline is made up neither of buildings, like New York, nor of trees, like Wilbraham, Massachusetts, but signs. ”
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“ America - It is a fabulous country, the only fabulous country; it is the only place where miracles not only happen, but where they happen all the time. ”
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