"The punters know that the horse named Morality rarely gets past the post, whereas the nag named Self-interest always runs a good race."

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Source : London Daily Telegraph, October 19, 1989.

Gough Whitlam

#Running Quotes #Horse Quotes #Memorable Quotes

“Storytelling and elegant style don't always go hand in hand.”
“I don't think I've left a trail of weeping women in my wake. I mean, the number of serious relationships I've had has not been into double digits.”
“There are houses whose souls have passed into the limbo of Time, leaving their bodies in the limbo of London. Such was not quite the condition of Timothy's on the Bayswater Road, for Timothy's soul still had one foot in Timothy Forsyte's body, and Smither kept the atmosphere unchanging, of camphor and port wine and house whose windows are only opened to air it twice a day.”
“I think in 1991, when Jimmy got to the semifinals, it was just incredible all of the people coming out.”
“I am going to die someday and I know where I am going.”
“It used to be that readers were relegated because they considered themselves far above society, and so the metaphor of the ivory tower developed. Now there's still this idea that the reader doesn't take part in the social game and in politics, the res publica, but for other reasons: he doesn't do it because he's not making any money.”
“Cynie Cory roams the outer reaches of the heartâ€™s territory, from the snowy winter of family life to the tropical jungles of love. She wears her heart on her sleeve and it is as big as the country she writes about. Is she the quintessential American girl? You bet she is, part Annie Oakley, part Emily Dickinsonâ€”sharpshooting poet of wild nights. She zooms in on the detritus of loveâ€”the broken fragments, the fallen leavesâ€”and puts together a collage that is as heartbreaking as it is beautiful. Watch outâ€”sheâ€™s driving down your street.”
“From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever; That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea.”

Source : "The Garden of Proserpine" l. 81 (1866)

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