"Smoked carp tastes just as good as smoked salmon when you ain't got no smoked salmon."

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Source : Patrick F. McManus (1984). “Never Sniff A Gift Fish”, p.25, Macmillan

Patrick F. McManus

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“When my family moved from Ireland in the 70s, Britain was such a difficult place to be Irish. It was a decade of real social and economic upheaval in Britain. There were strikes, the three-day week, the oil crises, huge inflation, the winter of discontent and, what was it, four Prime Ministers? And relations between Britain and Ireland at that time were at an all-time low. I was born in the year of Bloody Sunday and of course the pub bombings happened in the mid-1970s.”
“Adultery is not a crime, it's an amusement.”
“Love is a flaming heart, and its flames aspire / Till they cloud the soul in the smoke of a windy fire.”

Source : Arthur Symons, Roger Holdsworth (2003). “Arthur Symons: Selected Writings”, p.57, Psychology Press
“I always make sure thereâ€™s an opening in my room - an inch at the door, or maybe even at the window. My grandmother taught me that if one dies during sleep, the soul needs an exit, or it will be forever trapped in the room.”
“Jesus plus nothing equals everything; everything minus Jesus equals nothing.”
“Each precious moment of your life in which you are frozen with fear is a moment when you are not being all you can be. In the end, that hurts more than anything. Succeeding or failing does not determine if we are surviving or living. Rather it is in our ability to reach beyond our present self-imposed definition of who we are, and to risk becoming more, that we are able to feel fully alive.”

Source : Rhonda Britten (2002). “Fearless Living: Live Without Excuses and Love Without Regret”, p.98, Penguin
“I am bewildered by the magnificence of your beauty; and wish to see you with a hundred eyes . . . I am in the house of mercy, and my heart is a place of prayer.”
“Never trust an ugly woman. She's got a grudge against the world,' said Grandma who was no oil painting herself.”

Source : Richard Peck (2000). “A Long Way From Chicago: A Novel in Stories”, p.11, Penguin

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