"The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening."

Location, Day, Evening, Sun

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"The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening."

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"There's nothing like New Orleans. When it comes back, it will be a tremendous highlight for America."

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"A youthful American voice isn't particularly challenging - I've been a young American, and they're all around me. I can walk from my house to Barrington High School."

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"New York is a field of tireless and antagonistic interests undoubtedly fascinating but horribly unreal. Everybody is looking at everybody else a foolish crowd walking on mirrors."

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"Really, I didn't like Alaska. It rained, almost every day, at least 300 days out of the year."

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"We then journeyed on to London Street, down which the tidal ditch continues its course."

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"In No. 1 of this street the cholera first appeared seventeen years ago, and spread up it with fearful virulence; but this year it appeared at the opposite end, and ran down it with like severity."

Henry Mayhew, English Journalist

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"The city of London, within the walls, occupies a space of only 370 acres, and is but the hundred and fortieth part of the extent covered by the whole metropolis."

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"Perhaps the most difficult thing is shooting scenes set 6,000 feet up in the mountains of Mexico."

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"I come from Brazil, which is a Portuguese speaking part of the continent."

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"The reason can give nothing at all Like the response to desire."

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"The point of vision and desire are the same."

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"Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility."

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"Reality is not what it is. It consists of the many realities which it can be made into."

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"Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them."

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"We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark."

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"If some really acute observer made as much of egotism as Freud has made of sex, people would forget a good deal about sex and find the explanation for everything in egotism."

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"A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have."

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"One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be."

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"Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires."

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