"Rome is a place almost worn out by being looked at, a city collapsing under the weight of reference."

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Source : "The magus of the Midlands", www.theguardian.com. October 20, 2000.

Graham Joyce

#Rome Quotes #Cities Quotes #Weight Quotes

“I'm pushing ahead on my own - you no longer need a large record company to make you a star.”
“No fear or shame in the dignity of yr experience, language & knowledge”
“... it takes several years of serious fishing before a man learns enough to go through a whole season with an unblemished record of physical and spiritual anguish.”
“You should try not to talk so much, friend. You'll sound far less stupid that way. - Breeze”
“I believe in love. I believe in hard times and love winning. I believe marriage is hard. I believe people make mistakes. I believe people can want two things at once. I believe people are selfish and generous at the same time. I believe very few people want to hurt others. I believe that you can be surprised by life. I believe in happy endings.”
“Summer for prose and lemons, for nakedness and languor,”

Source : Derek Walcott (1969). “In a green night: poems, 1948-1960”, Jonathan Cape
“I have become infected, now that I see how beautifully a book is coming out of all this.”
“The world's most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money.”

Source : Matt Taibbi (2010). “Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America”, p.209, Spiegel & Grau

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