"There is accumulation. There is responsibility. And beyond this there is great unrest."

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Julian Barnes

#Responsibility Quotes #Unrest Quotes #Accumulation Quotes

“If you are leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy's propensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.”
“Mistakes are the best teachers. One does not learn from success. It is desirable to learn vicariously from other people's failures, but it gets much more firmly seared in when they are your own.”
“The 'Cercle et CarrÃ©' group owes its existence to my encounter with the Uruguayan painter TorrÃ¨s-Gracia in 1929... However difficult our relationship, his obstinacy matching my patience, this unholy team of fire and water was bound to produce something. Towards the end of the year, after consulting sundry artists, including Arp, Mondrian, and Van Doesburg, we drew up the program for a new group and launched a magazine which was be called 'Cercle et CarrÃ©'.”
“And I fear that my place gets taken by some other one, very lucky and not too shy, who flirts with your eyes while Iâ€™m the one whoâ€™s crazy about them.”
“Compassion and pity are not the same: pity is looking down on someone, feeling sorry for them and offering nothing; compassion is seeing their pain and offering them understanding.”
“I don't talk things, sir. I talk the meaning of things.”
“I always drink at lunchtime. It helps my imagination.”

Source : "Fictional character: Chief Inspector Morse". "Inspector Morse/ The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn", www.imdb.com. 1987.
“The right way to begin is to pay attention to the young, and make them just as good as possible.”

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