"I am still sure of absolute wrong but much less certain of absolute right."

-- Jill Tweedie

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“Wealth from trade was the mainspring of Western material advance; the visible agents of change were great guns. These came of age in Europe in the 15th century. On land their potency in reducing castle walls favoured central over local power, since in general only monarchs could afford siege-trains; so nation-states were consolidated and extended into great territorial empires. At sea, guns transformed sailing ships into mobile castles virtually impregnable to opponents who lacked equally powerful ordnance. With the ocean-going gunned warship, western Europe began to extend around the globe.”
“The relationships that people have - that are sexual, psychological, emotional - these relationships are not open to supervision by parents, schools, churches, or government. Nobody has any right to intervene at all in any kind of relationship like that.”
“I thought, When a man is properly drunk it is as though he is an a room by himself--there is a physical, impenetrable separation between him and his fellows.”

Source : Patrick deWitt (2011). “The Sisters Brothers”, p.81, Granta Books
“Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty.”
“The individual investor should act consistently as an investor and not as a speculator. This means ... that he should be able to justify every purchase he makes and each price he pays by impersonal, objective reasoning that satisfies him that he is getting more than his money's worth for his purchase.”
“I do like that idea that music can work on two levels, and you only pick up on the second one after a few listens.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“God, I'm a girl with a cursed fate. I've fallen in love with a boy and I want to be happy.”
“When it comes to meeting and attracting women, many men are resigned and complacent. We figure some guys were born with that particular power and other guys weren't. I wasn't.”

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