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in order to survive anywhere in today's world, you need to have a pretty good sense of humour.
The superlatively big and the superlatively little—each of them stirs us into wonder.
We are all victims of the love of the odd, and many people would go farther to see a man ten feet high or with three eyes than to talk with Socrates. Yet always in the end we return for repose to the normal.
"When you zigzag, you are not choosing what to see in this world but you are giving the world a chance to see you!"
To a mind of almost mischievous fearlessness is allied a shrinking sensitiveness and distaste for prominence of any kind, especially among people whom he does not know well.
