"The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble."

-- Henry Miller

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“I'm 49, I've had a brain haemorrhage and a triple bypass and I could still go out and play a reasonable game of rugby union. But I wouldn't last 30 seconds in rugby league.”

Source : "Quotes of the Week". www.independent.co.uk. October 20, 1995.
“Poets should speak out against what we see as the assault against our Constitution and the warmongering that's going on. I'm perfectly willing to lay down my life for my Constitution, but I am not willing to take a life for it or any other reason because I think killing people is counterproductive.”

Source : Interview with Anne-Marie Cusac, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. March 31, 2003.
“She was bedridden falling a fall which broke her hip. X-rays showed that she had cancer of the colon which had already spreed. To my surprise I found her cheerful and free of pain, perhaps because of the small doses of morphine she was being given. She was surrounded by neighbours and friends who congregated at her bedside day and night. In this cosy, noisy, gregarious world of the "all-chinese" sickbed, so different from the stark, sterile solitude of the American hospital room, her life had assumed the astounding quality of a continuous farewell party.”
“Life is never going to be perfect, as much as we want it to be, and I have to lead by example.”
“Often beauty grows dull or common when speech breaks the mask ...”

Source : Mary Renault (1974). “The Mask of Apollo”
“I don't do detoxes or cleanses; they don't really work for me.”
“A scene is never completed, but simply abandoned when the search for perfection is no longer producing positive results.”
“I am one of those for whom superfluity is a necessity.”

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