"I want a brighter word than bright"

-- John Keats

“At times, European football can be very slow but it speeds up in the final third.”
“A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.”
“Wisdom married to immortal verse.”
“This crowd is letting Kurt know that he sucks. Just in case he had forgotten.”
“I imagine the proverb about too many cooks spoiling the broth can be applied to writing as well as anything else. The poetical or literary broth is better cooked by one person.”
“For many observers, a child who has known nothing but war, a child for whom the Kalashnikov is the only way to make a living and for whom the bush is the most welcoming community, is a child lost forever for peace and development. I contest this view. For the sake of these children, it is essential to prove that another life is possible.”

Source : "Memoirs of a Boy Soldier author takes on UN role". www.theguardian.com. November 22, 2007.
“Few ever lived to old age, and fewer still ever became distinguished, who were not in the habit of early rising.”
“I had a cancer scare in the early 90s, and for a few months, I wondered if I would make it.”

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