"IN April 1882 my father died; and I was at once whirled out of my land of dreams into a very different sphere."

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Source : Edward Carpenter (1916). “My days and dreams: being autobiographical notes”

Edward Carpenter

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“I'm not sure any narrative model has been more important for me than Benjamin Britten's chamber operas.”

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“If the photographer is interested in the people in front of his lens, and if he is compassionate, it's already a lot. The instrument is not the camera but the photographer.”
“As a final crash of self-indulgent nonsense, when the incontrovertible truth of your panoramic and murderous deceit has even begun to cost your political party seemingly perpetual congressional seats....When somebody asks you, sir, about the cooked books and faked threats you foisted on a sincere and frightened nation; when somebody asks you, sir, about your gallant, noble, self-abnegating sacrifice of your golf game so as to soothe the families of the war dead; this advice, Mr. Bush: Shut the hell up! Good night and good luck.”
“English doctors have killed 3/4 of my friends & the joke is the remaining 1/4 go on recommending them, so odd is human nature.”
“Imposing limitations on yourself is cowardly because it protects you from having to try, and perhaps failing.”
“It's surprising that readers don't see challenging writing as morally hazardous, when it might be pushing the same kinds of boundaries as art does.”

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“Time drops in decay Like a candle burnt out. And the mountains and woods Have their day, have their day; But, kindly old rout Of the fire-born moods, You pass not away.”
“I felt like an impostor, taking all that money for reciting ten or twelve lines of nonsense a day.”

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