"Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young."

-- A. E. Housman

#Life Quotes #War Quotes #Lying Quotes

“The gift is for you...The surprise is for me.”
“One of the things I like about a character: I always think it's fascinating when a character can turn on a dime and go from one emotion to another. I like watching that.”
“I have no idea, actually, where I fit in, in terms of poetry camps. At AWP conferences, I have been on panels about humor, collaboration, visual poetry, confessional poetry, gender, and the body, as well as tributes to Edward Field and Albert Goldbarth. I felt at home on all of them - most poets straddle more than one school.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“The cost of leadership is self-interest.”
“Every time I fumble or drop a ball I am embarrassed.”
“I believe that school makes complete fools of our young men, because they see and hear nothing of ordinary life there.”

Source : Petronius (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Petronius (Illustrated)”, p.164, Delphi Classics
“I don't direct the plays of others.”
“Cities at night, I feel, contain men who cry in their sleep and then say Nothing. It's nothing. Just sad dreams. Or something like that...Swing low in your weep ship, with your tear scans and sob probes, and you would mark them. Women--and they can be wives, lovers, gaunt muses, fat nurses, obsessions, devourers, exes, nemeses--will wake and turn to these men and ask, with female need-to-know, "What is it?" And the men will say, "Nothing. No it isn't anything really. Just sad dreams.”

Source : Martin Amis (2010). “The Information”, p.9, Random House

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