. . . one thing I've learned in caving is always to be two hundred percent sure.
It 's possible to forgive someone a great deal if he makes you laugh.
Myth is someone else's religion.
Why do early risers always take that self-righteous tone?
There are personalities so powerful that they leave their stamp on any place they inhabit. Their presence is always there, like a spoor, whether or not they themselves are.
Night doesn't fall in Rome; it rises from the city's heart, from the gloomy little alleys and courtyards where the sun never gets much more than a brief look-in, and then, like the mist from the Tiber, it creeps over the rooftops and spreads up into the hills.
If a place is in your blood, you leave it at your peril. You will never be happy anywhere else.
A gritty grain of truth lay at the heart of most legends, she had told me, and the slow accretion of fiction hardened in layers around it.
Charles Francis Richter
J Dilla
Caligula
Ephraim Katzir
Herbert Hoover
Josh Barro
Patricia Cornwell
Haley Webb
Rosa Bonheur
Tim Flowers
Karl Valentin
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