It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing. – Mariane Moore, “A Grave,” Collected Poems, 1951
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It is curious to note the old sea-margins of human thought! Each subsiding century reveals some new mystery; we build where monsters used to hide themselves. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Kavanagh, 1849
Man talks about everything, and he talks about everything as though the understanding of everything were all inside him. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
Firemen can do almost everything. You already trust them in life-threatening situations why not let them help you with your everyday problems, too? – David Hunt
When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. Thats relativity. – Albert Einstein
