"London is a labyrinth, half of stone and half of flesh."

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Source : Peter Ackroyd (2000). “London: The Biography”, Doubleday

Peter Ackroyd

#Labyrinth Quotes #Stones Quotes #London Quotes

“Tis the established custom [in Vienna] for every lady to have two husbands, one that bears the name, and another that performs the duties.”
“To me, no painter has ever quite understood the light, the distances, the aboriginal ghostliness of the American West as well as Maynard Dixon. The great mood of his work is solitude, the effect of land and space on people. While his work stands perfectly well on its claims to beauty, it offers a spiritual view of the West indispensable to anyone who would understand it.”
“If someone says there's a portal to hell under some rocks, you bet your ***** I'm going to move them.”
“I was like every other boy in India, with a dream of playing for my country. Yet I could never have imagined a journey so long and so fulfilling. No dream is ever chased alone.”

Source : "Have Failed at Times, but Never Stopped Trying: Rahul Dravid". archive.indianexpress.com. March 10, 2012.
“I never met another man I'd rather be. And even if that's a delusion, it's a lucky one.”
“Kiran says (the shelf) is full of stories. If it is, then I like fairy stories. Fairy stories are fair. In them wishes are granted, words are enchanted, the honest and brave make it safely through to the last page and the baddies either have to give up their wickedness for ever and ever, no going back, or get ruthlessly written out of the story, which they hardly ever survive. Also in fairy stories there are hardly any of those half-good half-bad people that crop up so constantly in real life and are so difficult to believe in...”
“What do women want? A guy they can't drive crazy. There aren't many around. But they try. They can't help it, it's their nature.”
“Fraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none.”

Source : "Ultramares Corp. v. Touche, 255 N.Y. 170, 179, 174 N.E. 441, 444". 1931.

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