Pauline Gower quotes
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“To be alone in the air at night is to be very much alone indeed. . . cut off from everything and everyone . . . nothing is 'familiar' any longer . . . . I think that unfamiliarity is the most difficult thing to face; one feels rather like Alice in Wonderland after she has nibbled the toadstool that made her grow smaller - and like Alice, one hopes that the process will stop while there is still something left!”
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“No it was not the novelty, and it was not the danger and the adventure (although these had their charm). It was certainly not a passing whim (if it had been the hard work would have dispelled it in a very short time!). I think there were three chief reasons for my choice of career: First, a real love for, and interest in aviation Secondly, a determination to earn my own money and to make my career a paying proposition. Thirdly, a conviction that aviation was a profession of the future and therefore had room to welcome its new followers.”
-- Pauline Gower
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“Every age cuts and pastes history to suit its own purposes; art always has an ax to grind.”
Source : Ada Louise Huxtable (2010). “On Architecture: Collected Reflections on a Century of Change”, p.1, Bloomsbury Publishing USA
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Source : "Mark Souder: The Hypocrisy of the Hypocrite" by Diana Butler Bass, www.beliefnet.com. May 18, 2010.
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“I'm nothing you can catch now. I am black powder, I am singe, I am the bomb that bursts the night.”
Source : A.M. Homes (2012). “The End Of Alice”, p.149, Granta Books
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