"I thought I was growing wingsâ€” it was a cocoon. I thought, now is the time to step into the fireâ€” it was deep water. Eschatology is a word I learned as a child: the study of Last Things; facing my mirrorâ€”no longer young, the newsâ€”always of death, the dogsâ€”rising from sleep and clamoring and howling, howling.... ("Seeing For a Moment")"

-- Denise Levertov

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“Ecstasy is a drug so powerful, it makes white people think they can dance.”
“One of the most terrible things about the English education System in Ireland is its ruthlessness...it is cold and mechanical, like the ruthlessness of an immensely powerful engine. A machine vast, complicated... It grinds night and day; it obeys immutable and predetermined laws; it is as devoid of understanding, of sympathy, of imagination, as is any other piece of machinery that performs an appointed task. Into it is fed all raw human material in Ireland; it seizes upon it inexorably and rends and compresses and remoulds...”

Source : "The Cause Of Ireland" by Liz Curtis, Beyond the Pale Publications, Belfast, (p. 190), 1994.
“Solitude is very sad, Too much company twice as bad.”

Source : William Allingham, Helen Paterson Allingham (1912). “Poems”
“Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends.”

Source : "Pitié" by Marcus Fabius Quintilianus as reported in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, 1895.
“Now all that's left of me, is what I pretend to be. So together, but so broken up inside.”
“Prescribing hard work for the soft, or easy work for the hardy, is generally nonsense. What is always needed in any aim is right effort, right time, right people, right materials.”
“I think about fanaticism - oblivion awaits, especially for minor writers, so you have to be a fanatic; you have to be a crank to keep going, but on the other hand, what else would you do with the rest of your life? You gotta do something.”
“If we increase freight rates, the goods will move through the roads and the condition of the roads will become worse.”

Source : "Railway Budget". The Times of India, July 7, 2004.

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