"The Englishman can get along with sex quite perfectly so long as he can pretend that it isn't sex but something else."

-- James Agate

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“In this respect, our townsfolk were like everybody else, wrapped up in themselves; in other words, they were humanists: they disbelieved in pestilences. A pestilence isn't a thing made to man's measure; therefore we tell ourselves that pestilence is a mere bogy of the mind, a bad dream that will pass away. But it doesn't always pass away and, from one bad dream to another, it is men who pass away, and the humanists first of all, because they have taken no precautions.”
“God will become visible as God's image is reborn in you.”
“Looking back over sixty-odd years, life is like a piece of string with knots in it, the knots being those moments that live in the mind forever, and the intervals being hazy, half-recalled times when I have a fair idea of what was happenng, in a general way, but cannot be sure of dates or places or even the exact order in which events took place.”

Source : George MacDonald Fraser (1992). “Quartered safe out here: a recollection of the war in Burma”, Harvill Press
“Jeremy Popkin's collection of first-person narratives of the Haitian Revolution is an extremely valuable work, accessible, sound and intelligent. I only wish such a book had been available fifteen years ago when I was in the early stages of researching my series of novels. Popkin has been deft and tactful in stitching together these excerpts, and as a result, he manages to tell a complete version of the Revolution almost entirely in the words of the people who experienced it-this book engaged me deeply.”
“Sometimes diehard fans expect so much that they're never happy no matter what they get.”
“Anger is an emotion preeminently serviceable for the display of power.”

Source : Walter Bradford Cannon (1929). “Bodily changes in pain, hunger, fear and rage: an account of recent researches into the function of emotional excitement”
“Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.”
“Through the healing process of time-and through medical intervention or hospitalization in many cases-most people survive depression which may be its only blessing; but to the tragic legion who are compelled to destroy themselves there should be no more reproof attached than to the victims of terminal cancer.”

Source : William Styron (1990). “Darkness visible: a memoir of madness”, Random House Incorporated

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