“ Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles; but the magnifying of the one is like looking through a telescope at heavenly objects; that of the other, like enlarging monsters with a microscope. ”
- Leigh Hunt- Copy
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“ All the great things have been denied and we live in an intricacy of new and local mythologies, political, economic, poetic, which are asserted with an ever-enlarging incoherence. ”
- Wallace Stevens- Copy
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“ Undermining experience, embellishing experience, rearranging and enlarging experience into a species of mythology. ”
- Philip Roth- Copy
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“ Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security. ”
- John F. Kennedy- Copy
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