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Man sees what he knows, not what he sees

Short story, The Mallard — S.L. Northey

Walk straight ahead look straight ahead don't stop don't pose sharp turns be confident love yourself. — Rad Hourani

Concepts differentiate architecture from mere building ... A bicycle shed with a concept is architecture; a cathedral without one is just a building. — Bernard Tschumi

I walked into my dream and kept walking with my Leningrad in front of me and behind me and all around me. I wasn't carrying Russia with me. It was carrying me. — Paullina Simons

I live in the present. I only remember the past, and anticipate the future. — Henry David Thoreau

Like a kettle boiling over, the room foamed with laughter. — Heather Vogel Frederick

She and Jon had been startled and a little frighented by his misery. What happened when you were married, she realized, was that, although you began as two independent people, you eventually grew in certain ways to accommodate your partner's weaknesses and let other parts of you atrophy in deference to his strengths. It was a fine system as long as it endured, but if you extricated yourself from it you couldn't help but be, a least for a time, deformed. — Christina Schwarz

Ah, mother! How do you do?' said he, giving her a hearty shake of the hand; 'Where did you get that quiz of a hat? It makes you look like an old witch ... '
On his two younger sisters he then bestowed an equal portion of his fraternal tenderness, for he asked each of them how they did, and observed that they both looked very ugly. — Jane Austen

If you can't bring yourself to applaud because the performance was lousy, then applaud because it's over. They tried. — Mark W. Boyer