"Love is blind but not deaf."

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Source : Gilbert Adair (2014). “The Dreamers”, p.66, Faber & Faber

Gilbert Adair

#Love Is Quotes #Love Is Blind Quotes #Blind Quotes

“This is nothing new. We saw this with the Social Security Act, the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Right Act - constitutional challenges were brought to all three of these monumental pieces of legislation.”

Source : "Settled Law is on Side of Health Reform" by Stephanie Cutter, www.realclearpolitics.com. August 03, 2010.
“It just seems like right now weâ€™re in a place where people are being witch-hunted for expressing an opinion. Even if itâ€™s a lousy opinion or a shitty opinion, and comics I donâ€™t think can ever fall into the trap of any groups that want to censor what a person says or thinks or punish a person for expressing what they think. Anything you say about a social issue is going to offend half the country. I donâ€™t care how nicely you say it, I donâ€™t care how well you construct the joke, simply by stating the opinion, you are for something and anti something else.”
“Likewise, free trade does not, as evidenced in CAFTA, mean fair trade.”
“In Malaysia, where Western culture was extremely influential, I'd grown up listening to Elvis and the Beatles and watching American movies. People wanted to be like Americans. In contrast, when I got here, I saw prosperous middle-class American college students wanting to somehow join the Third World.”
“The human race is unimportant. It is the self that must not be betrayed." "I suppose one could say that Hitler didn't betray his self." "You are right. He did not. But millions of Germans did betray their selves. That was the tragedy. Not that one man had the courage to be evil. But that millions had not the courage to be good.”

Source : John Fowles (1968). “The Magus”, Pan
“The most important thing for me - and the thing I get frustrated about when I don't achieve it - is momentum. Sometimes you hit on it quite naturally and other times it's a mad struggle.”
“One night I was on my [Navy] ship... on my first cruise crossing the North Atlantic in a horrible storm, chained to the rails so I wouldn't fall overboard. In this lightning and thunder and hail, in this misery, I shouted at the heavens with my little squeaky voice and said, Someday I'm going to be a photographer! It was as big an epiphany as any man ever had.”
“The story is more important to me than the part.”

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