"Fifty years is the long time to think about a thinker's relevance or to think of the relevance of their work to a contemporary period."

-- Nigel Gibson

#Thinking Quotes #Years Quotes #Long Quotes

“I hope that I serve by being a teacher.”
“Although the Irish language is connected with the many recollections that twine around the hearts of Irishmen, yet the superior utility of the English tongue, as the medium of all modern communication, is so great that I can witness without a sigh the gradual decline of the Irish language.”
“Everywhere I go, people love me, so I'm just blessed. Do you blame them?”
“Some years ago there was in the city of York a society of magicians. They met upon the third Wednesday of every month and read each other long, dull papers upon the history of English magic.”
“Season of Migration to the North, by Tayeb Salih, is an eloquent and restrained portrait of one man's exile. It is a rare narrative in that it charts a life divided between England and Sudan. Without a doubt it is one of the finest Arabic novels of the 20th century, and Denys Johnson-Davies' translationdoes the original justice.”
“Lie still, lie still, my breaking heart; My silent heart, lie still and break: Life, and the world, and mine own self, are changed For a dream's sake.”
“And so I wait. I wait for time to heal the pain and raise me to me feet once again - so that I can start a new path, my own path, the one that will make me whole again.”
“Oh, don't be silly - EVERYONE wants this. Everyone wants to be *us*.”

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