"The neighbourhood is a place of...intrigue and emotional espionage, where when two people stop to talk on the street their tongues are like the two halves of a scissor coming together, cutting reputations and good names to shreds."

-- Nadeem Aslam

#Cutting Quotes #Emotional Quotes #Names Quotes

“England with all thy faults, I love thee still-- My country! and, while yet a nook is left Where English minds and manners may be found, Shall be constrained to love thee.”
“There are no ordinary feelings. Just as there are no ordinary spring days or kicked over cans of paint.”

Source : Dean Young (2005). “Elegy On Toy Piano”, University of Pittsburgh Press
“Better is the wrong with sincerity, rather than the right with falsehood.”

Source : Martin Farquhar Tupper (1846). “Proverbial Philosophy: A Book of Thoughts and Arguments, Originally Treated”, p.147
“America is a place where we all come together. It is a place of consensus.”
“The smallness of our desires may contribute reasonably to our wealth.”
“In politics there's never a magic wand.”

Source : "Julia Gillard: 20 people, 20 questions". www.theguardian.com. May 26, 2013.
“How to sustain the miracle Of being, that like a muted bell, Or like some ocean-breathing shell, Quivers, intense and still?”

Source : Babette Deutsch (1963). “Collected Poems: 1919-1962”
“I've been accused of vulgarity. I say that's bullshit.”

Source : "Mel Brooks Honored With AFI Life Achievement Award" by Gregg Kilday, www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 7, 2013.

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