"There are, fortunately, very few people who can say that they have actually attended a murder."

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Source : Margery Allingham (1959). “Crime and Mr. Campion”

Margery Allingham

#People Quotes #Murder Quotes

“But desperate people find courage.”

Source : Ken Follett (2010). “The Pillars of the Earth”, p.315, Penguin
“I turned my face more exclusively than ever to the woods, where I was better known.”
“To make love is to become like this infant again. We grope with our mouths toward the body of another being, whom we trust, who takes us in her arms. We rock together with this loved one. We move beyond speech. Our bodies move past all the controls we have learned. We cry out in ecstasy, in feeling. We are back in a natural world before culture tried to erase our experience of nature. In this world, to touch another is to express love; there is no idea apart from feeling, and no feeling which does not ring through our bodies and our souls at once.”
“Once a secret society establishes itself within an open society, there is no end to the hideous mistrust it must cause.”
“Wildness It is perennially within us, dormant as a hard-shelled seed, awaiting the fire or flood that awakes it again.”

Source : Gary Snyder (2010). “The Practice of the Wild”, p.14, Counterpoint Press
“All claims of education notwithstanding, the pupil will accept only that which his mind craves.”
“I think Van Sant is the most important American director we have. He takes the most risks. He's just pure to me.”
“A theatre, a literature, an artistic expression that does not speak for its own time has no relevance.”

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