"All those large dreams by which men long live well Are magic-lanterned on the smoke of hell."

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Source : William Empson (2000). “The complete poems”, Lane, Allen

William Empson

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“You don't wake up in the morning and think, I'm going to be so bad today. I'm going to be a nasty villain to everyone. No, you just wake up and do your own thing.”
“Happiness is a road seldom traveled by the multitudes. If you find it, please, don't take it for granted. If you Happen to stray from it, don't let negative obstacles overcome you. Anger and rage only detour you from your final objectives. The future holds nothing but opportunity, and good things happen to good people I promise”
“I think I will always stay involved in tennis and would like to give back by helping out young players. I have done a little commentary and may one day enjoy doing that again.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.”
“Dante Alighieri is a universal poet, and great creators, they are writing for everybody always. Every single verse is very moving, and the beauty - if we don't understand, we just stay listening to the sound and it's like hearing music.”
“Every time someone puts an objection to me, I want to say: 'OK, OK, let's go on to something else.' Objections have never contributed anything.”
“But pain may be a gift to us. Remember, after all, that pain is one of the ways we register in memory the things that vanish, that are taken away. We fix them in our minds forever by yearning, by pain, by crying out. Pain, the pain that seems unbearable at the time, is memory's first imprinting step, the cornerstone of the temple we erect inside us in memory of the dead. Pain is part of memory, and memory is a God-given gift.”
“She is my first and only love. Most people know that their first love will not be their only love. But for me, she is both.”

Source : David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.190, Egmont UK

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