"I'll tell you this, lad: A tattoo says more of a fellow looking at it than it can do of the man who's got it on his back."

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Source : Sarah Hall (2010). “The Electric Michelangelo”, p.149, Faber & Faber

Sarah Hall

#Tattoo Quotes #Men Quotes #He Man Quotes

“What does open us is sharing our vulnerabilities. Sometimes we see a couple who has done this difficult work over a lifetime. In the process, they have grown old together. We can sense the enormous comfort, the shared quality of ease between these people. It is beautiful, and very rare. Without this quality of openness and vulnerability, partners don't really know each other; they are one image living with another image....”
“Your filter bubble is your own personal, unique universe of information that you live in online. What's in your filter bubble depends on who you are, and it depends on what you do. But you don't decide what gets in - and more importantly, you don't see what gets edited out.”

Source : "Beware online 'filter bubbles'". TED conference, www.ted.com. March 2011.
“Thus for each blunt-faced ignorant one The great grey rigid uniform combined Safety with virtue of the sun. Thus concepts linked like chainmail in the mind.”

Source : Thom Gunn (2017). “Selected Poems of Thom Gunn”, p.57, Faber & Faber
“I was very much an only child who was raised by the television and movies, and I grew up in New York. We weren't, like, rich people, but we were middle-class people and my parents supported this love I had for entertainment.”
“I'd rather have 1% of the effort of 100 men than 100% of my own effort.”
“The history of a soldier's wound beguiles the pain of it.”
“Sand-strewn caverns, cool and deep, Where the winds are all asleep; Where the spent lights quiver and gleam; Where the salt weed sways in the stream.”
“I will never apologize for being me, speaking the truth & giving all of me to the world. I will never apologize for being real & how I feel.”

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