What he saw seemed to be the very idea of a city, barnacled and thick with itself.
– David Edison
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- City of memories, city of mirrors. – Justin Cronin
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- I found Bombay and opium, the drug and the city, the city of opium and the drug Bombay – Jeet Thayil
- The meaning of life is life itself. The reward of love is love itself. The joy of the journey is not in the destination but in the journey itself. – Debasish Mridha
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- Bravery is not the absence of fear, but rather, it is the decision to look fear in the eyes and press on regardless – Luke Edison
- There are monsters among us. I mean this quite literally. – Edison McDaniels
- I probably did too much thinking in India. I blame it on the roads, for they were superb… – Robert Edison Fulton Jr
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- Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages. – Thomas A Edison
- Get your story written, you always have the second and third draft to fix things like tense, 1st vs 3rd person, the exact right word, etc. – Andromeda Edison