The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart.
-Iris Murdoch, writer (1919-1999)
..shame to boast
It was my shame, and now it is my boast, That I have loved you rather more than most.
-Hilaire Belloc, writer and poet (1870-1953)
contradict to avoid...
I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.
-Marcel Duchamp, artist (1887-1968)
...untidy!
The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
-John Galsworthy, author, Nobel laureate (1867-1933)
keep in balance
You have to laugh at the things that hurt you just to keep yourself in balance, just to keep the world from running you plumb crazy.
-Ken Kesey, novelist (1935-2001)
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