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I have to go around with my shirt open so that I have enough room for my chest.
— Laura Hillenbrand
Whatever the practical value of the Walden experiment may be, there is no question that the book is one of the most vital and pithy ever written.
— Edward Carpenter
With my somewhat vague aspiring mind, to be imprisoned in the rude details of a most material life was often irksome.
— Edward Carpenter
Like his father, like Jules Renard, he had been carried along the slow, steady swindle of history and experience.
— Mavis Gallant
People think of black English as ungrammatical, but it bears the same relationship to standard English as contemporary Hebrew does to ancient Hebrew.
— John McWhorter
Where there had been only jeers or taunts at first, crowds come to listen with serious and sympathetic men.
— Edward Carpenter
Early in 1888 one or two of us got together to establish our own Sheffield Socialist Society.
— Edward Carpenter
Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory is too good.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Let your mind be quiet, realizing the beauty of the world, and the immense boundless treasures that it holds.
— Edward Carpenter
Remember, the serpent is still living in the Garden of Eden. Only the heterosexual couple was expelled.
— Edward Carpenter
You look into the abyss and the abyss looks back," I said, shrugging. "Then you punch the abyss in the face.
— Larry Correia
But SACRIFICE does not mean 'death' at all. It means MAKING HOLY
— Edward Carpenter
Great success in examinations does naturally not as a rule go with originality of thought.
— Edward Carpenter
My ideas had been taking a socialistic shape for many years; but they were lacking in definite outline.
— Edward Carpenter
We lived within two hundred yards of the sea, and its voice was in our ears night and day.
— Edward Carpenter
Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
— Edmund Burke
I'm, like, a real nerd, in that I will take a book that is three inches thick and disappear and not leave until it's done.
— Julia Jones
I saw deep in the eyes of the animals, the human soul look out upon me.
— Edward Carpenter
Adventure without risk is Disneyland.
— Douglas Coupland
IN April 1882 my father died; and I was at once whirled out of my land of dreams into a very different sphere.
— Edward Carpenter
What a sad era when it is easier to smash an atom than a prejudice.
— Albert Einstein
I might have simply settled down into an armchair literary life. I really don't know exactly why I didn't.
— Edward Carpenter
The other thing that happened in 1883 was my reading of Thoreau's Walden.
— Edward Carpenter
Making a choice is like backing a horse - in a hundred years, they may decide you picked wrongly.
— Edward Carpenter
Ripe in wisdom was he, but patient, and simple, and childlike.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Motherhood is, after all, woman's great and incomparable work.
— Edward Carpenter