"One can get very fond of the people one meets in bars. The trouble is they then appear sort of different in the daylight and you realize that taking them with you is rather like taking a goldfish for a walk: not entirely correct, and surprising for the next people you run into."

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Source : Alice Thomas Ellis (1988). “Home Life Three”, Gerald Duckworth

Alice Thomas Ellis

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“If we learn the art of yielding what must be yielded to the changing present, we can save the best of the past.”
“A lot of my films have dealt with the dark side of technology and stress that you have to examine the ramifications of progress.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“You must write every single day of your life... You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads... may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.”
“We may have pain, but not as great as His name.”
“I have awards right now that I do not remember walking on stage to get.”
“The rational transparency and beauty of the universe are surely too remarkable to be treated as just happy accidents.”

Source : John Polkinghorne, Nicholas Beale (2009). “Questions of Truth: Fifty-one Responses to Questions about God, Science, and Belief”, p.12, Westminster John Knox Press
“I've been sober for two-and-a-half years, My children are happy. In August, my wife and I will celebrate our fifteenth wedding anniversary. My band is back together with a sold-out tour.”
“The woman who needs to be liberated most is the woman in every man, and the man who needs to be liberated most is the man in every woman”

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