"What is the price of a thousand horses against a son where there is one son only?"

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Source : John Millington Synge (2014). “Synge: Complete Plays: In the Shadow of the Glen; Riders to the Sea; The Tinker's Wedding; The Well of the Saints; The Playboy of the Western World; Deirdre of the Sorrows”, p.98, Bloomsbury Publishing

John Millington Synge

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“I came from a different world from other designers because I already had such a strong fan base that was interested in fashion. You have to give the little divas something.”
“Those who have abandoned themselves to God always lead mysterious lives and receive from him exceptional and miraculous gifts by means of the most ordinary, natural and chance experiences in which there appears to be nothing unusual. The simplest sermon, the most banal conversations, the least erudite books become a source of knowledges and wisdom to these souls by virtue of God's purpose. This is why they carefully pick up the crumbs which clever minds tread underfoot, for to them everything is precious and a source of enrichment.”
“If the Settlement seeks its expression through social activity, it must learn the difference between mere social unrest and spiritual impulse.”
“And I'm lost behind The words I'll never find And I'm left behind As seasons roll on by”

Source : Song: Seasons
“We have this kind of revolving door, we don't have a permanent class of millionaires in America like a lot of other countries.”
“If there's not drama and negativity in my life, all my songs will be really wack and boring or something.”
“We're in a world of triple-digit oil prices for the foreseeable future,”
“I would stay away from him and leave him to go his own road where there would be other women, countless other women, who would probably give him as much physical pleasure as he had had with me. I wouldnâ€™t care, or at least I told myself that I wouldnâ€™t care, because none of them would ever own himâ€”own any larger piece of him than I now did.”

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