"When you live with the Devil you learn there's a God very quickly."

-- Sinead O'Connor

“History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.”

Source : 'The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' (1776-88) ch. 3.
“With confidence, you have won before you have started.”
“Embarrassed journalists ask me embarrassing questions, and they get embarrassing answers, and then hand out embarrassing stories to the embarrassing editors, who put them to the front pages of newspapers. When is this going to end?”
“There's a pervasive feeling that when somebody sings a song and records a song on a record, that it's their true feeling.”
“Biology always beats will power.”
“Oh, I know I'll improve. It's just that my life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes now. That's a sentence I read once, and I say it over to comfort myself in these times that try the soul.”
“Money can come and go, and fame comes and goes. Peace of mind and a relationship with God is far more important, so this is the precedent that we've set in our lives. The bottom line is, we all die, so Jesus is the answer.”
“Swinburne was an absurd character. He was a bird of showy strut and plumage. One could not but admire his glorious feathers; but, as soon as he began to moult ... one saw how very little body there was underneath.”

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