"What I do deny is that you can build any enduring society without some such mystical ethos."

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Herbert Read

#Ethos Quotes #Literature Quotes #Deny Quotes

“Love is easy, and I love writing. You can't resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you're in love.”
“I can honestly say, all the bad things that ever happened to me were directly, directly attributed to drugs and alcohol. I mean, I would never urinate at the Alamo at nine o'clock in the morning dressed in a woman's evening dress sober.”

Source : MTV News Online, 1992.
“We do not always like the people we love- we do not always have that choice.”

Source : Anne Enright (2010). “The Gathering”, p.110, Random House
“There was never any more inception than there is now, Nor any more youth or age than there is now; And will never be any more perfection than there is now, Nor any more heaven or hell than there is now.”
“Only philosophers embark on this perilous expedition to the outermost reaches of language and existence. Some of them fall off, but others cling on desperately and yell at the people nestling deep in the snug softness, stuffing themselves with delicious food and drink. 'Ladies and Gentlemen,' they yell, 'we are floating in space!' But none of the people down there care”
“If I wasn't a model I would have liked to be a gardener. It is still a puzzle to me that I ever became a model. I am an extremely private person and I do not have the temperament for fame. I think I was rather ashamed of this trivial way of earning a living.”
“It's nice to marry your best friend. It suits me.”
“...pleasure, of course, is a slippery word.... Our pleasures ultimately belong to us, not to the pleasure's source.”

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