"The porter spends his days in the Library keeping strict vigil over this catacomb of books, passing along between the shelves and yet never paying heed to the almost audible susurrus of desire- the desire every book has to be taken down and read, to live, to come into being in somebody's mind. He even hands the volumes over the counter, seeks them out in their proper places or returns them there without once realising that a Book is a Person and not a Thing."

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Source : W. N. P. Barbellion (1919). “The Journal of a Disappointed Man”

W.N.P. Barbellion

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“Sex appeal is 50% what you've got and 50% what people think you've got.”
“Music is a reflection of who you are.”
“Reality TV is anything but.”
“It was an outdoor Shakespeare theater that I grew up at. That feels like home, and the place I'm always trying to figure out how to get to.”

Source : "Hamish Linklater Stops Time, Fights Aliens, Discovers The Future". Interview with Gillian Mohney, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 15, 2011.
“So the first thing you need to do about conflict is to prevent it, and the best way of preventing it is by dealing with the question of poverty.”
“If it is right for men to fight for their freedom, and God knows what the human race would be like today if men had not, since time began, fought for their freedom, then it is right for women to fight for their freedom and the freedom of the children they bear.”

Source : Emmeline Pankhurst (2015). “My Own Story: Top Biography”, p.146, 谷月社
“If we are still discussing its merits tomorrow, I will agree with you," said Diagoras. "Cheer up, laddie. Nobody lives forever." "Oh I expect you will, Druss, Old Horse. It's the mortals around you who always seem to kiss the granite.”
“I'm always interested in craft and I was interested to see how people work. For me, it's a little like lessons at school.”

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