"I sometimes feel that more lousy dishes are presented under the banner of pate than any other."

-- Kingsley Amis

#Sometimes Quotes #Dishes Quotes #Banner Quotes

“Everyone complains that we can no longer intake huge chunks of text. I find that a reason to celebrate. It's something that has deep roots in modernism, stretching from the Futurists' use of typography to Pound's use of ideograms to concrete poetry.”
“A smile becomes you or perhaps you become you when you smile.”
“I've seen so many beautiful curvy women gain success in hollywood and then wither into bobble headed stick figures in some grotesque attempt to fit a revolting hollywood trend. I like real women, not the broomsticks that Hollywood has been selling lately.”
“There is a human striving for self-transcendence. It's part of what makes us human. With all of our flaws we want to go a little bit further than we've gone before and maybe even further than anyone else has gone before.”
“Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.”
“I always think that I love doing what I'm doing at the moment. The past is over. I can't go play one of those characters again. But I can play this and I can continue to grow in what I'm doing at the moment and that's really what I'm thinking about now.”
“I would rather wear honest tears than the most beautiful and elaborately faked smile.”
“I sometimes think that God will ask us, 'That wonderful world of mine, why didn't you enjoy it more?”

Source : Ronald Blythe (2007). “Out of the Valley: Another Year at Wormingford”, p.18, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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