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The Twitcher’s list is very democratic. Each bird counts as one tick. There are no extra points for beauty or rarity.

— Sean Dooley The Big Twitch (2005)

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Cool people don’t bother becoming dictators; they’re too busy getting laid.

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Everything seemed to be falling into place perfectly. That had to be a worry.

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I could see the same look of incomprehension on her face that my parents often wore: ‘this person cannot possibly be related to me.’

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Beautiful objects are wrought by study through effort, but ugly things are reaped automatically without toil.

Democritus Freeman (1948)

True beauty dwells in deep retreats,
Whose veil is unremoved
Till heart with heart in concord beats,
And the lover is beloved.

William Wordsworth

The great artists are the ones who dare to entitle to beauty things so natural that when they're seen afterward, people say: Why did I never realize before that this too was beautiful?

André Gide The Immoralist (1902)

Beauty itself doth of itself persuade
The eyes of men without an orator.

William Shakespeare The Rape of Lucrece (1594)

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