"Most human quarrels arise from the fact that both wise men and dunces exist who are so constituted as to be incaable of seeing more than one side of any fact or idea, while each asserts that the side he sees is the only true and right one." -- Honore De Balzac, Paris August-September 1846

"We shall tell it at length, in precise and thorough detail -- for when was a story short of diversion or long on boredom simply because of the time and space required for the telling? Unafraid of the odium of appearing too meticulous, we are much more inclined to the view that only thoroughness can be truly entertaining . And with that, we begin." -- Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain

"Time is the element of narration, just as it is the element of life--is inextricably bound up with it, as bodies are in space. It is also the element of music, which itself measures and divides time, making it suddenly diverting and precious; and related to music, as we hve noted, is the story, which can also only present itself in successive events, as movements toward an end (and not as something suddenly, brilliantly present, like a work of visual art, which is pure body bound to time), and even if it would try to be totally here in each moment, would still need time for presentation." - Thomas Mann

"I mean to prepare the way for futurity. I'm no philosopher, you see, and may be justly said to build castles in the air." My folly makes me ashamed and beg you'll conceal it, yet Neddy we have seen such schemes successful when the projector is constant." -- Alexander Hamilton, 1769, aged fourteen in a letter to Edward Stevens

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