"Had your forefathers, Wigglesworth, been as stupid as you are, the human race would never have succeeded in procreating itself."

-- Alan Bennett

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“As a writer who writes poetry, nonfiction, and fiction, I think it's important to always maintain a firm grasp on genre and ethics.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Bad men do what good men only dream.”

Source : Gavin Ewart (2011). “Selected Poems 1933-1993”, p.43, Faber & Faber
“Each painting is its own world, but a lot of times I do see the paintings as one page from a story. You can imagine what has happened before or after. Sometimes they are worded as being a part of a story, especially the paintings where characters are in conversation.”
“With thought, patience, and discrimination, book passion becomes the signature of a person's character.”

Source : Nicholas A. Basbanes (1995). “A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books”, Henry Holt & Company
“The impious presumption of legislators and rulers, civil as well as ecclesiastical, who, being themselves but fallible and uninspired men, have assumed dominion over the faith of others, setting up their own opinions and modes of thinking as the only true and infallible, and as such endeavoring to impose them on others, hath established and maintained false religions over the greatest part of the world and through all time.”
“The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.”
“And how am I to face the odds Of man's bedevilment and God's? I, a stranger and afraid In a world I never made.”
“Business is recognizing the role it can play in combatting climate change. Thank God, is all I can say, for there is a desperately urgent need for business to play that role. Your lobbying influence can be substantial, but together, united and in large enough numbers it could prove decisive in turning the tide.”

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