"I'm way too disorganized."

--

Hope Davis

“Nature gets credit which should in truth be reserved for ourselves: the rose for its scent, the nightingale for its song; and the sun for its radiance. The poets are entirely mistaken. They should address their lyrics to themselves and should turn them into odes of self congratulation on the excellence of the human mind.”
“I am half-surprised to find that as I go on I get more and more confirmed in the old advanced Liberal principles, economic, social, & political, with which I entered Parliament 30 years ago.”

Source : Letter to John Spencer on February 19, 1900. "CB: a Life of Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman". Book by John Wilson, p. 326, 1973.
“Then once you get people locked up, it's an incredibly inhuman system.”
“Quite often, most of us are defined first by our vital statistics - our sex, our height, our weight, the colour of our eyes and then we're defined by our job.”
“Sunday, January 27, 1884. -- There was another story in the paper a week or so since. A gentleman had a favourite cat whom he taught to sit at the dinner table where it behaved very well. He was in the habit of putting any scraps he left onto the cat's plate. One day puss did not take his place punctually, but presently appeared with two mice, one of which it placed on its master's plate, the other on its own.”
“I don't write for catharsis; I have to write to understand.”
“I'm not a politician, I'm a comedian. I know my limitations.”
“Faculty Meetings are held whenever the need to show off is combined with the imperative of accomplishing nothing.”

Source : Alexander Theroux (1981). “Darconville's cat”, Doubleday Books

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