"This is newness: every little tawdryObstacle glass-wrapped and peculiar,Glinting and clinking in a saint's falsetto. Only youDon't know what to make of the sudden slippiness,The blind, white, awful, inaccessible slant.There's no getting up it by the words you know.No getting up by elephant or wheel or shoe.We have only come to look. You are too newTo want the world in a glass hat."

Discovery, Wonder, Confusion, Word

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"This is newness: every little tawdryObstacle glass-wrapped and peculiar,Glinting and clinking in a saint's falsetto. Only youDon't know what to make of the sudden slippiness,The blind, white, awful, inaccessible slant.There's no getting up it by the words you know.No getting up by elephant or wheel or shoe.We have only come to look. You are too newTo want the world in a glass hat."

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"But that was what research and development were like. Full of semi-triumphs and perplexing unforeseen consequences like the whole violent hiccuping thing when conjuring up fire - or the propensity for fillings to fall out of bystanders' teeth when attempting to tease a rainstorm out of a cloud."

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"A man's errors are his portals of discovery."

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"For me, a journey to Damascus is an amazing hunt from beginning to end, a slice through layers of history in search of treasure."

Tahir Shah, British Author

Discovery, Journey, History, Curiosity

"Heaven can be found in the most unlikely corners."

Mitch Albom, American Writer

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"It often horrified the English community that she spent her time with local farmers and horse traders, eccentrics and mystics, but she valued expertise over convention and had long believed if you were going to make discoveries in the world you must first quit your Englishness and open your eyes."

Sara Sheridan, Scottish Author

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"You certainly usually find something if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after."

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Ayn Rand, Russian Writer

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"If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"We go on our hands and knees and crawl our way towards the truth."

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"Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing."

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"I moved in front of the medicine cabinet. If I looked in the mirror while I did it, it would be like watching somebody else, in a book or a play."

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"Slowly I swam up from the bottom of a black sleep."

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"What obsession do men have for destruction and murder? Who do we electrocute men for murdering an individual and then pin a purple heart on them for mass slaughter of someone arbitrarily labeled 'enemy?"

War

"Brave love, dreamnot of staunching such strict flame, but come,lean to my wound; burn on, burn on."

Love

"I lean to you, numb as a fossil. Tell me I'm here."

Emotion

"This boy - his name was Eric - said he thought it disgusting the way all the girls at my college stood around on the porches under the porch lights and in the bushes in plain view, necking madly before the one o'clock curfew, so everybody passing by could see them. A million years of evolution, Eric said bitterly, and what are we? Animals."

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"Feel oddly barren. My sickness is when words draw in their horns and the physical world refuses to be ordered, recreated, arranged and selected. I am a victim of it then, not a master."

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"This is a case without a body.The body does not come into it at all."

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"I wanted to crawl in between those black lines of print, the way you crawl through a fence, and go to sleep under that beautiful big green fig-tree."

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