"Variations: II Green light, from the moon, Pours over the dark blue trees, Green light from the autumn moon Pours on the grass ... Green light falls on the goblin fountain Where hesitant lovers meet and pass. They laugh in the moonlight, touching hands, They move like leaves on the wind ... I remember an autumn night like this, And not so long ago, When other lovers were blown like leaves, Before the coming of snow."

-- Conrad Aiken

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“I will not tire of declaring that if we really want an effective end to violence we must remove the violence that lies at the root of all violence: structural violence, social injustice, exclusion of citizens from the management of the country, repression. All this is what constitutes the primal cause, from which the rest flows naturally.”
“Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first - rock and roll or Christianity.”
“With technology now, you can go in and sing a song, and for $100,000, you will sound flawless.”
“The dividing line between the wave or particle nature of matter and radiation is the moment â€œNow.â€ As this moment steadily advances through time it coagulates a wavy future into a particle past.”
“Patriotism is the secret resource of a successful society.”

Source : "Michael Ignatieff: from The Late Show to Prime Minister in waiting?". Interview With Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. September 26, 2009.
“We can learn from history, but we can also deceive ourselves when we selectively take evidence from the past to justify what we have already made up our minds to do.”
“There is no point in asking a man a question until you have established whether he has any reason to lie to you.”

Source : Ken Follett (2011). “Ken Follett Three Bestsellers”, p.1216, Penguin
“I would love to be on Broadway!”

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