this is america, you live in it, you let it happen. let it unfurl.

Real flight and dreams of flight go together. Both are part of the same movement. Not A before B, but all together.

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Life's single lesson: that there is more accident to it than a man can ever admit to in a lifetime and stay sane.

Who claims Truth, Truth abandons. History is hir'd, or coerc'd, only in Interests that must ever prove base. She is too innocent, to be left within the reach of anyone in Power,- who need but touch her, and all her Credit is in the instant vanish'd, as if it had never been. She needs rather to be tended lovingly and honorably by fabulists and counterfeiters, Ballad-Mongers and Cranks of ev'ry Radius, Masters of Disguise to provide her the Costume, Toilette, and Bearing, and Speech nimble enough to keep her beyond the Desires, or even the Curiosity, of Government.

Explosion without an objective', declared Miles Blundell, 'is politics in its purest form'.

Everybody gets told to write about what they know. The trouble with many of us is that at the earlier stages of life we think we know everything- or to put it more usefully, we are often unaware of the scope and structure of our ignorance.