"Old friend,' said Cadvan, filling another glass for himself and sniffing its rich smell. 'If we do not trust one another, we are already defeated."

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Alison Croggon

#Glasses Quotes #Smell Quotes #Old Friends Quotes

“Poetry's a mere drug, Sir.”

Source : 'Love and a Bottle' (1698) act 3, sc. 2.
“In my office, I like it quiet, so I can concentrate.”
“Jewish history turns out not to be an either/or story - as in, either pure Judaism detached from its surroundings or else assimilation - but rather, for the vast majority, the adventure of living in between.”
“Women's studies is a comfy, chummy morass of unchallenged groupthink . It is, with rare exception, totally unscholarly. Academic feminists have silenced men and dissenting women.”

Source : Camille Paglia (2018). “Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism”, p.74, Canongate Books
“You cannot govern, you cannot administrate, with an ignoramus.”

Source : "The Agitator" by Margaret Talbot, www.newyorker.com. June 5, 2006.
“I never have thought I was beautiful and I never can get beautiful enough. I'm always doing whatever I can to look as good as I can, nipping and tucking if necessary. When you're older, you probably look more bizarre to people. But I don't care. I'm just totally convinced that it's more important that I be happy with me.”
“The creation of a work of art, like an act of love, is our one small 'yes' at the center of a vast 'no.'”
“All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.”

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