"With the fall of the empire, Art, Philosophy and decent drains all vanished from the West."

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Source : Bryan Ward-Perkins (2006). “The Fall of Rome: And the End of Civilization”, p.13, OUP Oxford

Bryan Ward-Perkins

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“if the world is not safe for babies you are never going to get a democracy worth having.”
“I start with the story, almost in the old campfire sense, and the story leads to both the characters, which actors should best be cast in this story, and the language. The choice of words, more than anything else, creates the feeling that the story gives off.”
“If you must believe in anything, believe in yourselves, in your senses, in your minds. To accept a religious creed is to accept another mind in place of your own and generally contrary to your own. When religious belief comes in brains go out”
“I met a gypsy and she hipped me to some life game, To stimulate, then activate the left and right brain. Said, 'Baby boy, you only funky as your last cut. You focus on the past, your ass'll be a has-what.' That's one to live by, or either that's one to die to.”
“We shall not enter Palestine with its soil covered in sand, we shall enter it with its soil saturated in blood”
“If you slow it down, eat in courses, your body, mind, stomach will catch up with this full feeling and you won't eat as much.”
“She held herself very straight, like Audrey Hepburn, whom all women idolize and men never think about.”

Source : Jeffrey Eugenides (1993). “The Virgin Suicides: A Novel”, p.123, Macmillan
“It takes a courageous fool to say things that have not been said and to do things that have not been done.”

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