"What makes bitter things sweet? Hunger."

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Source : "The Year 1000: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium, An Englishman's World". Book by Robert Lacey and Danny Danziger (p. 57), 1999.

Alcuin

#Sweet Quotes #Bitter Quotes #Hunger Quotes

“The avocation of assessing the failures of better men can be turned into a comfortable livelihood, providing you back it up with a Ph.D.”

Source : "Nelson Algren, The Art of Fiction No. 11". Interview with Alston Anderson, Terry Southern, www.theparisreview.org. 1955.
“One point has already been proven. Everything that happened once can happen again.”
“The story line, the comparisons to this show and the Bible Ends after the names of the characters.”
“One of many ways to be useful is to inspire people to forget some rules imposed by society. IMPORTANT rules are dictated by our hearts.”
“People don't seem to have a problem with a romanticized New York, in fact that's almost all they ever do, in some sense, is romanticize that place. Los Angeles deserves the same courtesy.”
“There, I'm an artist. Thousands of women on ecstasy now want to have three-ways with me.”
“While we dance in the streets and pat ourselves on the back for being a nation great enough to reach beyond racial divides to elect our first African-American president, let us not forget that we remain a nation still proudly practicing prejudice.”
“You never know what you're going to share. I can play, I know what is written - the marks, the things the composer tells me to do - and I do it, but it will still sound different each day.”

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