"I am for who i was in the beginning but now is present and i exist in the future."

-- Frank McCourt

“Are all men in disguise except those crying?”

Source : Dannie Abse (1986). “Ask the bloody horse”, Vintage
“It's very challenging to learn something new as an adult.”
“He leaned close, rubbing his bearded cheek against my ear. 'And how about a sweet kiss, now, for the brave lads of the clan MacKenzie? Tulach Ard!' Erin go bragh,' I said rudely, and pushed with all my strength.”
“People living on atolls like Tuvalu are among the world's most threatened populations.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“A staple of my personality is that I want what I want - and Im willing to do without until I get it.”
“Authors of published papers and editors of scientific journals can, unfortunately, be slow to come to terms with criticism, and it's good that we can use blogs to express specific criticisms of published articles and to use social media to disseminate these criticisms.”

Source : "We talked to the scientist at the center of a brutal firestorm in the field of psychology" by Rafi Letzter, www.businessinsider.com. September 26, 2016.
“The parasite of art, the virus of art, never ceases to gnaw awat at your brain, never ceases to torture you with the knowledge that whatever you’re doing could be done more beautifully, more powerfully, more stirringly, more disturbingly, more deeply.”

Source : Brian Morton (2004). “A Window Across the River”, p.96, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Nobody thinks that there were never mechanical horses in the world. Everybody knows that there aren't really golems.”

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