"I have never been able to understand why pigeon-shooting at Hurlingham should be refined and polite, while a rat-killing match in Whitechapel is low."

-- Thomas Huxley

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“You can only give things up once they start to let you down.”

Source : Edward St Aubyn (2014). “The Patrick Melrose Novels: Picador Classic”, p.285, Pan Macmillan
“My life started being awesome five years ago.”

Source : "Connie Britton Is a Late Bloomer" by Susan Dominus, www.nytimes.com. February 13, 2013.
“A university is not a political party, and an education is not an indoctrination.”
“I think I must have a super-fast metabolism.”
“Had I become a priest, the sermons would've been electric!”
“The idea that America elected a black man to be its president forty years after it declined to allow Martin Luther King Jr. to stand on a balcony without getting shot still maintains its power to awe and inspire.”

Source : "Black Like Him: Obama's Narrow Path to Reelection" by Charles P. Pierse, www.esquire.com. July 23, 2015.
“You know, one, two, three, four, five years go by and then Marcos gets a little boring.”
“There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down.”

Source : Don DeLillo (2012). “The Names”, p.303, Vintage

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