"and because what we learn in the dark remains all our lives, a noise like the sea, displacing the day's pale knowledge, you'll come to yourself in a glimmer of rainfall or frost, the burnt smell of autumn, a meeting of parallel lines, and know you were someone else for the longest time, pretending you knew where you were, like a diffident tourist, lost on the one main square, and afraid to enquire."

-- John Burnside

#Autumn Quotes #Dark Quotes #Sea Quotes

“That children shall be compelled to receive religious instruction which is in antagonism to the wishes of their parents, is what no man with say sense of justice would suggest.”
“I've made some mistakes before.”
“Sometimes, I actually end up doing three or four different versions of one song, and sometimes, those versions can be done very differently. They can be very laid back, downtempo, or sometimes the same song can be quite uptempo. But it is always the same melody and chord progressions.”
“Isn't there any other part of the matzo you can eat?”
“Now I've got the world swingin' from my nuts And damn it feels good to be a gangsta!”
“The retrospective glance is a relatively easy gesture for us to make.”
“For a long timeâ€”always, in factâ€”I have known that life here on earth is not what I needed and that I wasnâ€™t able to deal with it; for this reason and for this reason alone, I have acquired a touch of spiritual pride, so that my existence seems to me the degradation and the erosion of a psalm.”
“The people who could do most to improve the situation of so many women and children are in fact, men,”

Source : "Sir Patrick Stewart speaks out against domestic violence" by Caroline Siede, www.avclub.com. May 31, 2013.

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