"I've just finished a series of Olivia Manning novels. She's best known for two trilogies: Balkan Trilogy and Levant Trilogy. The six novels are continuous and contain the same set of characters. They are based on Manning's experiences in Eastern Europe and Egypt during the Second World War. Each novel is a wonderful picture of the peculiar British expatriate culture and what was happening during the war. She's one of those brilliant women who write very well about domestic relationships. All the books are slim, and it's easy to gallop through them."

-- Sarah Waters

#War Quotes #Book Quotes #Character Quotes

“I will not join any club who will take me as a member.”
“The man who is admired for the ingenuity of his larceny is almost always rediscovering some earlier form of fraud. The basic forms are all known, have all been practiced. The manners of capitalism improve. The morals may not.”
“I used to find that I could get mental serenity surrounded by chaos.”

Source : "Interview: Kirby Bliss Blanton and Alexis Knapp on Project X". Interview with Laremy Legel, www.mtv.com. March 1, 2012.
“Murder is the apex of megalomania, the ultimate in control.”

Source : Lucy Freeman (1955). “"Before I Kill More ..."”
“If this war is not fought with the greatest brutality against the bands both in the East and in the Balkans then in the foreseeable future the strength at our disposal will not be sufficient to be able to master this plague.”
“If we practice the science of yoga, which is useful to the entire human community and which yields happiness both here and hereafter - if we practice it without fail, we will then attain physical, mental, and spiritual happiness, and our minds will flood towards the Self.”

Source : Sri K. Pattabhi Jois (2010). “Yoga Mala: The Seminal Treatise and Guide from the Living Master of Ashtanga Yoga”, p.21, Macmillan
“... if you take a risk, two things will happen. People will laugh at you. Or you'll be way ahead of everybody else. And if that's what you're in it for, then you gotta take that risk.”
“When the music is physically demanding, I want to make sure that the effort involved is put across to the audience through physical gesture.”

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