My Favorite Words: A rose is a rose is a rose.

The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.

Salvador Dalí
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My Favorite Words: In theory...

Gravity is the thermodynamic limit of the statistical mechanics of 'atoms of space-time.'

Thanu Padmanabhan
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On Writing: Rise & Fall

To wish oneself into another's glory ... is an impossibility, untenable on psychological grounds if you are not a writer, and on aesthetic grounds if you are. To embrace your hero in his destruction, however--to let your hero's life occur within you when everything is trying to diminish him, to imagine yourself into his bad luck, to implicate yourself not in his mindless ascendancy ... but in the bewilderment of his tragic fall--well, that's worth thinking about.

Philip Roth
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