"The (U.K.) government's thesis that the countryside of upland and coastal Britain is 'worth sacrificing to save the planet' is an insult to science, economics and politics. But the greatest insult is to aesthetics. The trouble is that aesthetics has no way of answering back."

-- Simon Jenkins

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“Faith in the supernatural is a desperate wager made by man at the lowest ebb of his fortunes.”
“Why should you think that beauty, which is the most precious thing in the world, lies like a stone on the beach for the careless passer-by to pick up idly? Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul. And when he has made it, it is not given to all to know it. To recognize it you must repeat the adventure of the artist. It is a melody that he sings to you, and to hear it again in your own heart you want knowledge and sensitiveness and imagination.”

Source : W. Somerset Maugham (2013). “The Essential W. Somerset Maugham Collection”, p.1312, eBookIt.com
“If we are honest with ourselves, most of us will have to admit that we live out our lives in an ocean of fear.”
“I care not who controls a nation's political affairs, so long as I control her currency”
“I believe that one of the great pleasures that we derive from voyaging is that of independence, and we have found that the best guarantee of that independence comes from simplicity.”
“If I had to go through a tunnel ten years without making any movies like Bunuel, I don't mind, as long as I did one good movie.”
“The proper response toward what we occasionally imagine to be democracy, methinks, is to retain one's self-respect by not participating in it.”
“There are rules for hiding in plain sight. The first rule, or at least the one that Sandor repeats most often, is â€œDonâ€™t be stupid.â€ Iâ€™m about to break that rule by taking off my pants.”

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