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What the New Yorker calls home would seem like a couple of closets to most Americans, yet he manages not only to live there but also to grow trees and cockroaches right on the premises.

Quote by Russell Baker about couple, americans, home, rightness

The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all...

The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.

Quote by Erich Fromm about creation, science, art, magic

Genius to know without having learned; to draw just...

Genius to know without having learned; to draw just conclusions from unknown premises; to discern the soul of things.

Quote by Ambrose Bierce about genius, soul, things

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