"The public, as a whole, does not demand or appreciate the pure expression of beauty. Its cultured members expect to find in poetry, if anything, repose from material and nervous anxiety; an apt or chiselled phrase strokes the appetites and tickles the imagination. The more general public merely enjoys its platitudes and truisms jerked on to the understanding in line and rhyme; truth put into metre sounds overwhelmingly true."

-- Harold Monro

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“There is no lasting glory in rapid weight loss.”
“Why do people avoid being alone? Because only few are in good company when left with themselves.”
“Among the lessons learned in my lifetime is the ease with which corruption can enter high places in the mask of friendship. Sometimes the recipient is not aware of the barbed hook under the gift; often, he who gives may not know but be the unwitting agent of a craftier mind.”
“Japanese moe relationships socially dysfunctional men develop deep attachments to body pillows with women painted on them.”
“I love the Midwest. I think about it every day. I wonder if I would rather have a little farm in the Midwest, in Illinois or Wisconsin, or would I rather have like a little getaway up in the mountains of Colorado.”
“Sometimes you have to lose yourself 'fore you can find anything.”

Source : "Fictional character: Lewis". "Deliverance", www.imdb.com. 1972.
“[Albert] Camus points out that we have a lot of things to pass through. Everything has to be accepted before it can be improved.”

Source : Source: www.spikemagazine.com
“I was in my thirties before I learnt that I too would prefer not to see what I could no longer have”

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