"Only peons made excusses for themselves she taught me. Never apologize, never explain."

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Source : Marianne Faithfull, David Dalton (2000). “Faithfull: An Autobiography”, p.5, Rowman & Littlefield

Janet Fitch

#Taught Quotes #Apologizing Quotes #Made Quotes

“Any excuse to get away from the computer screen is welcome.”
“When I'm doing shows I don't need much from a city. All I'm looking for is a good meal and a decent spot to have a couple drinks.”
“Fascism is the most inherently evil political ideology that man has ever devised. Wherever we see even the smallest sapling of fascism growing, we should use every just, reasonable and humane method at our disposal to rip-it out by its roots and then salt the very earth wherein it grew, so that no other such thing may ever again take root. Of course, we must also take great care to ensure that during this process, we ourselves do not become fascists in the fight against fascism.”
“I don't miss racing, but I miss the time to train every day, to do the workouts, because I'm busy with a lot of things now. But if I have space during my day, I want to have a good workout, because my main goal right now is to give all the experience I've had in my career back to young riders, to companies.”
“Humor is the great thing, the saving thing after all. The minute it crops up, all our hardnesses yield, all our irritations, and resentments flit away, and a sunny spirit takes their place.”
“And the elephant sings deep in the forest-maze About a star of deathless and painless peace But no astronomer can find where it is.”
“It took a deadly illness to put me eye to eye with that truth, but it is a truth that the country, caught up in its ruthless ambitions and moral decay, can learn on my dime.”
“Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.”

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