"Peace is not achievable as a direct object of purposeful behaviour."

-- Colin S. Gray

#War Quotes #Behaviour Quotes #Direct Quotes

“If you don't turn your life into a story, you just become a part of someone else's story.”
“I wanted so much to write that I couldn't write a word.”
“I didn't have any role models. I really thought I was doomed to this loveless, lonely life. I didn't know any gay people until I began doing theater.”
“I'm one of the handful of survivors of the guys I came up with.”

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“the soul of conversation is sympathy”
“To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.”
“Getting to the top has an unfortunate tendency to persuade people that the system is OK after all.”
“Such a slender moon, going up and up, Waxing so fast from night to night, And swelling like an orange flower-bud, bright, Fated, methought, to round as to a golden cup, And hold to my two lips life's best of wine.”

Source : Jean Ingelow (1874). “The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow”, p.131

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