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“For it is my opinion that we enclose and celebrate the freaks of our nation and our civilization. Yellowstone National Park is no more representative of America than is Disneyland.”
― Travels with Charley: In Search of America
― Travels with Charley: In Search of America
“Ah, happiness courts the light so we deem the world is gay. But misery hides aloof so we deem that misery there is none.”
― Bartleby the Scrivener
― Bartleby the Scrivener
“Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.”
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“Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.”
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“Dr. Kertesz mentioned to me a case known to him of a farmer who had developed prosopagnosia and in consequence could no longer distinguish (the faces of) his cows, and of another such patient, an attendant in a Natural History Museum, who mistook his own reflection for the diorama of an ape”
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