"Malice is only another name for mediocrity."

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Source : Patrick Kavanagh (1973). “Collected Pruse”

Patrick Kavanagh

#Names Quotes #Mediocrity Quotes #Malice Quotes

“I say eat fast and die young.”

Source : Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. December 1, 2011.
“If the picture speaks to me, if it tells me something about myself, then I want it. Then I have to have it.”
“I think that Ronald Reagan had it right, being against abortion except in certain limited, defined circumstances.”
“The power of prayer is still the greatest ever known in this endless eternal universe.-The Watcher in The Avengers #14”
“To me, the idea of a weatherman is really powerful. There's a guy on television or on the radio telling us the future, and nobody cares. It's this daily mundane miracle, and I think the songs I chose are about noticing the beauty in normal, everyday life.”
“I've figured out that I don't want to spend all of my spare time trying to make money. But, with things like fame or internet presence - things you cannot cash in at the bank - there is still a sense that more is better and that your career should be following a certain trajectory.”

Source : Source: thequietus.com
“Like all silent men, I am an incessant talker. I talk so much in an endless monologue in my own mind, explaining meself to meself, explaining things (in me own mind) to your aunt, answering back customers (in me own mind) and talking to beautiful women about my soul (in me own mind) and addressing huge cheering crowds about my ideas on how the country should be run (in my imagination) that when it comes to loosening me mortal tongue in reel life, sure there's not an ounce of talk left in me.”
“To live the life you've always wanted, you must confront the issues you've always avoided.”

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