"No night so wild but brings the constant sun With love and power untold; No time so dark but through its woof there run Some blessed threads of gold."

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Source : Christopher Pearse Cranch (1875). “The Bird and the Bell: With Other Poems”, p.238

Christopher Pearse Cranch

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“The Humbling is not vintage Roth, despite its compelling premise. The bizarre series of episodes -- mostly sexual encounters with women -- which make up this short novel don't play to Roth's strengths. (...) The Humbling disappoints because it avoids these universal implications, and veers off into a baroque world of the unique and fantastic, never quite deigning to make its world concrete or to give its characters the honour of an independent will.”
“As our power over others increases, we become less free; for to retain it, we must make ourselves its servants.”
“At this point the question of Ukraine is the most important. The situation in Ukraine is very bad. If we don't take steps now to improve the situation, we may lose Ukraine. The objective should be to transform Ukraine , in the shortest period of time, into a real fortress of the U.S.S.R.”
“Crassus was in the habit of maintaining that nobody should be called rich who was not able to maintain an army on his income.”
“We, women of one country, Will be too tender of those of another country To allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs.”

Source : Julia Ward Howe (1871). “Proceedings of a peace meeting held at Union league hall, New York, December 23rd, 1870, for the purpose of free consultation on the subject of a woman's peace congress for the world, as proposed by ... Julia Ward Howe”, p.30
“The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.”
“Seat assignment didn't matter if you're flying Dallas to Houston and you did it 38 times a day. People just got on, you didn't sit next to your wife, and it was a 45-minute flight. It didn't matter.”
“If a story isn't working, I'm simply unable to finish it. That's what usually tells me something is wrong.”

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