"And there'd be no more jokes in Music-halls To mock the riddled corpses round Bapaume."

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Source : 'Blighters' (1917)

Siegfried Sassoon

#Betrayal Quotes #Halls Quotes #Jokes Quotes

“I wanted to make a comment on the obsession with success and failure that we see a lot in America.”
“The magnificent thing about her [Amelia Earhart] is, in the eyes of the world, she simply never died. Her fear never witnessed, her failure never recorded, her shiny twin-engine Electra never recovered. Earhart's legacy of inspiration is amplified because her adventure is perpetual. We don't think of her as dead; we think of her as missing. She is forever flying, somewhere beyond Lae, over that limitless blue horizon.”
“Cautionary tales were fantastic in the '70s.”
“I've done without doing things, like sleeping and eating, but I need to write.”
“Chemistry cannot be purchased.”

Source : Twitter post from Sep 15, 2012
“Hope is the destination that we seek. Love is the road that leads to hope. Courage is the motor that drives us. We travel out of darkness into faith.”
“Right now, I have some big dreams. But at the same time, if I get annoyed and harassed by the media, I'll just quit. I don't care. We're set for life. I have quite a temper.”
“[On her first meeting with he ex-husband, Steven Seagal:] He reminded me of an alien.”

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