"I hear better with a pen in my hand."

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Source : Alan Judd (1995). “Devil's Own Work”, Vintage Books

Alan Judd

#Hands Quotes #Pens Quotes

“Everything about everybody was very soon known by everybody else.”
“Gore Vidal, the American writer, once described the American economic system as 'free enterprise for the poor and socialism for the rich'. Macroeconomic policy on the global scale is a bit like that. It is Keynesianism for the rich countries and monetarism for the poor.”

Source : Ha-Joon Chang (2007). “Bad Samaritans: rich nations, poor policies, and the threat to the developing world”, Century
“For where did Dante take the material of his hell but from our actual world? And yet he made a very proper hell of it.”
“I was brought into situations God couldn't get out of, and I got out of them.”
“Henry patted Charlotteâ€™s shoulder anxiously. â€œWould you like a cool cloth? What can I do to help?â€ â€œYou could ride up to Yorkshire and chop that old goatâ€™s head off.â€ Charlotte sounded mutinous. â€œWonâ€™t that make things rather awkward with the Clave?â€ asked Henry. â€œTheyâ€™re not generally very receptive about, you know, beheadings and things.”
“It's hard to get a film, you know, you need a very special film to be able to get that experimental. But, I would love to see that happen. I would love the opportunity to be more experimental than I am.”
“all working, practical political systems, even those professing to originate in moral grandeur, are based upon and operate by contempt of human life and the individual fate ...”
“When we lose love, we lose also our identification with the universe and with eternal values--an identification which alone makesit possible for us to lay our lives on the altar for what we believe.”

Source : Sarah-Patton Boyle, Jennifer Lynn Ritterhouse (1962). “The Desegregated Heart: A Virginian's Stand in Time of Transition”, p.311, University of Virginia Press

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