"We may be as good as we please, if we please to be good."

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Source : Isaac Barrow (1798). “Twenty two sermons on various subjects: selected from the works of the Rev. Isaac Barrow, ...”, p.378

Isaac Barrow

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“When we were arguing on my twenty-fourth birthday, she left the kitchen, came back with a pistol, and fired it at me five times from right across the table. But she missed. It wasn't my life she was after. It was more. She wanted to eat my heart and be lost in the desert with what she'd done, she wanted to fall on her knees and give birth from it, she wanted to hurt me as only a child can be hurt by its mother.”

Source : Denis Johnson (2009). “Jesus' Son: Stories”, p.84, Macmillan
“The government of the United States is and always has been a lawyer's government.”
“One reads thousands of books, of poets, modern and ancient, as one meets thousands of people. What remains of it all is hard to tell.”
“You have to be a brat in order to carve out your parameters, and you have to be a monster to anyone who gets in your way. But sometimes it's difficult to know when that's necessary and when you're just being a baby, throwing your rattle from the cage.”

Source : "I can be a real arrogant brat" by Xan Brooks, www.theguardian.com. January 27, 2003.
“Innate ideas are in every man, born with him; they are truly himself. The man who says that we have no innate ideas must be a fool and knave, having no conscience or innate science.”
“Because I had been in conservatory for so long, I was jealous of my friends in bands.”
“Pressure is an emotional paralysis. It's hard enough to do the dishes when you're feeling pressured, let alone make a movie.”
“I just write songs, I make music, and I have several times over reinvented my life in order to keep making music and just make music all day. I don't know. It's just what I have to do.”

Source : Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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