"When I makes tea I makes tea, as old mother Grogan said. And when I makes water I makes water."

-- James Joyce

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“The townspeople are morons, yokels, peasants and genus ***** boobiensis...surrounded by gaping primates from the upland vallies.”
“A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take.”
“I hadn't done anything in six years; I was just vegetating.”

Source : Interview with Ann Bruns, www.bookreporter.com. May 17, 2002.
“We got a great benefit from our contact with those people [Lucie Rie, Hans Coper, Richard Batram] and met people that we wouldn't have probably met if we had simply worked at the pottery.”
“Until then, you can do what everyone else your age does. Listen to music. Watch the television. Just keep your nose away from those books.”
“There's no quiet place here on earth for our love, not in the village and not anywhere else, so I picture a grave, deep and narrow, in which we embrace as if clamped together, I bury my face against you, you yours against me, and no one will ever see us.”
“We live in an age of miracles so commonplace that it can be difficult to see them as anything other than part of the daily texture of living”

Source : Tom Chatfield, The School of Life (2012). “How to Thrive in the Digital Age”, p.3, Pan Macmillan
“When you hear the word 'cancer,' it's as if someone took the game of Life and tossed it in the air. All the pieces go flying. The pieces land on a new board. Everything has shifted. You don't know where to start.”

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