"If things were half as bad as some people persist in believing, I'd have retired with a bottle of Scotch and a pistol a long time ago."

-- Robert Maxwell

#Believe Quotes #Scotch Quotes #People Quotes

“I learned by transcribing songs out of the Library of Congress collection in Washington where I was working. I got a job when I just turned twenty in 1939 and Alan [Lomax] needed some help. I listened to hundreds of records every week.”
“A rare objectivity and insight can be imparted regarding this world's struggle for spiritual integrity. In the land of Faerie, the reader may see his small battles writ large in the wars of titans or elves and understand for the first time, his own worth.”
“Onshore wind turbines are visually a very considerable intrusion on any landscape.”
“Another secret we carry is that though drab outside - wreckage to the eye, mirrors a mortification - inside we flame with a wild life that is almost incommunicable.”

Source : Florida Scott-Maxwell (2013). “Measure of My Days”, p.21, Knopf
“With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.”
“Aside from the collective gain that comes from that free interchange of ideas, there is a direct personal value for the individual concerned. Each of us should have the right to speak his thoughts and to hear the thoughts of others...”
“There are many of our so-called captains on industry who, if the truth were told, and a shorter and uglier word were not unpermissible, are little better than malefactors of great wealth.”
“Code is followed by commentary, and commentary by revision, and thus the task is never done.”

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