George Mackay Brown famous quotes

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Without the story - in which everyone living, unborn and dead, participates - men are no more than bits of paper blown on the cold wind.
-- George Mackay Brown

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As soon as the seal was clear of the water, it reared up and its skin slipped down to the sand. What had been a seal was a white-skinned boy
-- George Mackay Brown

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Old wisdom out of the cluster of gathering shadows.
-- George Mackay Brown

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In Scotland, when people congregate, they tend to argue and discuss and reason; in Orkney, they tell stories.
-- George Mackay Brown

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The first few glasses of beer were a revelation; they flushed my veins with happiness; they washed away all cares and shyness and worries. I remember thinking to myself, If I could have two pints of beer every afternoon, life would be a great happiness.
-- George Mackay Brown

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God wants us to speak to men so that they will feel it, so that they will never forget it. God means every Christian to be effective, to make a difference in the actual records and results of Christian work. God put each of us here to be a power. There is not one of us but is an essential wheel of the machinery and can accomplish all that God calls us to.
A devotee should be fixed in the conclusion that, the spiritual master cannot be subject to criticism and should never be considered equal to a common man.
Our first duty is to satisfy the spiritual master, who can arrange for the Lord's mercy. A common man must first begin to serve the spiritual master or the devotee. Then, through the mercy of the devotee, the Lord will be satisfied. Unless one receives the dust of a devotee's lotus feet on one's head, there is no possibility of advancement. Unless one approaches a pure devotee, he cannot understand the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.
Therefore, since the world has still Much good, but much less good than ill, And while the sun and moon endure Luck's a chance, but trouble's sure, I'd face it as a wise man would, And train for ill and not for good.
What is this world? A mere curl of smoke for the wind to scatter.
... if, as women, we accept a philosophy of history that asserts that women are by definition assimilated into the male universal,that we can understand our past through a male lens--if we are unaware that women even have a history--we live our lives similarly unanchored, drifting in response to a veering wind of myth and bias.
Human beings love stories because they safely show us beginnings, middles and ends.
It's really a sad story, and I liked that. The songs on this album talk about relationships in every aspect.
I think with anything where you delve into the back story of an artist, it kind of explains their work more intimately.

George Mackay Brown famous quotes

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