"Where is delight? and what are pleasures now?-Moths that a garment fret.The world is turned memorial, crying, "ThouShalt not forget!"

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Source : Mary Elizabeth Coleridge (1900). “Fancy's Following”

Mary Elizabeth Coleridge

#Memorial Quotes #Delight Quotes #World Quotes

“Every bad situation is a blues song waiting to happen.”

Source : "Readers recommend: melancholy songs" by Peter Kimpton, www.theguardian.com. August 27, 2015.
“The choice between two of something is not a choice at all, but rather the opportunity to subscribe to the value system which holds the two presented choices as mutually exclusive alternatives.”

Source : Kate Bornstein (2013). “Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us”, p.111, Routledge
“Surely the fact that a uniformed police officer is wearing his hair below his collar will make him no less identifiable as a policeman.”
“Learn how to cook a (effing) omelet. I mean, what nicer thing can you do for somebody than make them breakfast? You look good doing it, and it's a nice thing to do for somebody you just had sex with.”
“Now it is quite clear to me that there are no solid spheres in the heavens, and those that have been devised by the authors to save the appearances, exist only in the imagination.”
“America ainâ€™t three fifths bad.”
“In the twenty-five years that have passed since the ending of the World War when the people of this country emerged from generations of humiliation under foreign occupation, we have accomplished much to our credit, overcome many difficulties and changed the course of our history.”
“I feel like I've exhausted guys and male friendships.”

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