"Walt Whitman, he who laid end to end words never seen in each other's company before outside of a dictionary."

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Source : 'Changing Places' (1975) ch. 5

David Lodge

#Ends Quotes #Company Quotes #Walt Quotes

“People naturally long for a bit of the wealth that is whorling all around them, and if the work and education available to them won't get them closer to the comforts that they see others enjoying, the temptation to take shortcuts can be fierce.”

Source : "The whorl of poverty". Interview with Elizabeth Taylor, www.chicagotribune.com. May 18, 2012.
“It will not do, my friend, to grant an easy indulgence to natural appetite and desire, for they ever seek to be our masters.”
“Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army the superiority over another.”
“Is almost a good enough reason for fear?”

Source : Beth Revis (2012). “A Million Suns: An Across the Universe Novel”, p.164, Penguin
“I don't think the subject of a documentary film should be producers on it.”
“I found my way to make my peace with the recent past by turning it into WORD.”
“I decided that not talking is like a litmus test for a real friend. You can just sit there and be. Not always be filling up the air with words”
“My job is to create myself a career that I can go to sleep satisfied with what Im doing.”

Source : "LatinoBuzz: Exclusive Interview with Kate Del Castillo". Interview with Renee Ylizaliturri, www.indiewire.com. September 18, 2013.

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