"A beard on a man is only a way of hiding something, his face of course, but also the inner matters, like a hedge around a secret garden, or a cover over a bird cage."

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Source : Sebastian Barry (2008). “The Secret Scripture”, p.84, Faber & Faber

Sebastian Barry

#Men Quotes #Garden Quotes #Bird Quotes

“I love the life of a musician but I live the life of a bodybuilder.”
“Being dead will be no different from being unborn -- I shall be just as I was in the time of William the Conqueror or the dinosaurs or the trilobites. There is nothing to fear in that.”
“There is a small window of opportunity for freckled girls to tan.”
“We need to have empathy. When we lose empathy, we lose our humanity.”
“It's as if they have thinner boundaries separating them from other people's emotions and from the tragedies and cruelties of the world.”
“The Patriot Act, passed overwhelmingly but hastily after 9/11, allows the FBI to obtain telecommunication, financial, and credit records without a court order.”

Source : "We're losing control of our digital privacy" by Rebecca MacKinnon, www.cnn.com. January 29, 2012.
“People with advantages are loath to believe that they just happen to be people with advantages.”
“They've got us surrounded again, the poor bastards.”

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