"It scored right away with me by being the smooth, fine-grained sort, not the coarse flaky, dry-on-the-outside rubbish full of chunds of gut and gristle to testify to its authenticity."

-- Kingsley Amis

#Dry Quotes #Rubbish Quotes #Authenticity Quotes

“The life of Liverpool is commerce; it is a city of warehouses and shops.”

Source : Katharine Lee Bates (1907). “From Gretna Green to Land's End: A Literary Journey in England”
“I will stumble, I will fall down, but I will not be moved; I will make mistakes, I will face heartache, but I will not be moved.”

Source : Song: I Will Not Be Moved, Album: Relentless, 2008
“People sometimes recognize me here, but they are very nice.”
“Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change.”
“A writer starts out, I think, wanting to be a transfiguring agent, and ends up usually just making contact, contact with other human beings. This, unsurprisingly, is not enough.”

Source : Joy Williams (2015). “Ill Nature: Rants and Reflections on Humanity and Other Animals”, p.177, Rowman & Littlefield
“It took me a while to realize that's just your body preparing you to do something.”
“It is good to stay in a peaceful poverty than to stay in a painful wealth.”
“I used to entertain myself - I taught myself to use stilts and juggle and ride a unicycle. But I was never immediately interested in theatre.”

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