"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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"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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"They were heading out to the middle of the bay - the Gulf - that's another thing that became kind of standard practice, we didn't hurry the destroyers around the beach any more, when it got dark, we'd take 'em out thirty or forty miles out in the middle of the Tonkin Gulf."

James Stockdale, American Soldier

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"Me, my literary reputation is mostly abroad, but I am anchored here in New York. I can't think of any other place I'd rather die than here."

Harold Brodkey, American Author

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"Paris ain't much of a town."

Babe Ruth, American Athlete

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

Peter Max, American Artist

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"Saskatchewan is much like Texas- except it's more friendly to the United States."

Adlai E. Stevenson, American Politician

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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."

Henry Mayhew, English Journalist

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

John C. Hawkes, American Novelist

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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."

Gene Wolfe, American Writer

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"I am never at my best in the early morning, especially a cold morning in the Yorkshire spring with a piercing March wind sweeping down from the fells, finding its way inside my clothing, nipping at my nose and ears."

James Herriot, British Writer

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"They were heading out to the middle of the bay - the Gulf - that's another thing that became kind of standard practice, we didn't hurry the destroyers around the beach any more, when it got dark, we'd take 'em out thirty or forty miles out in the middle of the Tonkin Gulf."

"Me, my literary reputation is mostly abroad, but I am anchored here in New York. I can't think of any other place I'd rather die than here."

"Paris ain't much of a town."

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

"Saskatchewan is much like Texas- except it's more friendly to the United States."

"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."

"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."

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

"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."

"I am never at my best in the early morning, especially a cold morning in the Yorkshire spring with a piercing March wind sweeping down from the fells, finding its way inside my clothing, nipping at my nose and ears."

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

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"To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind."

"Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake."

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

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

"What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality."