"When I was a boy, I naively thought that this thing called happiness would be something I would wake up to find every day once I could smoke, drink and fornicate."

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Source : Jeffrey Bernard (2002). “Reach for the Ground”, p.109, Gerald Duckworth & Co

Jeffrey Bernard

#Boys Quotes #Would Be Quotes #Wake Up Quotes

“Do we, as humans, having an ability to reason and to communicate abstract ideas verbally and in writing, and to form ethical and moral judgments using the accumulated knowledge of the ages, have the right to take the lives of other sentient organisms, particularly when we are not forced to do so by hunger or dietary need, but rather do so for the somewhat frivolous reason that we like the taste of meat? In essence, should we know better?”
“Let's assume that all the cassettes of monochrome film Cartier-Bresson ever exposed had somehow been surreptitiously loaded with colour film. I'd venture to say that about two thirds of his pictures would be ruined and the remainder unaffected, neither spoiled nor improved. And perhaps one in a thousand enhanced.”
“Deciding to remember, and what to remember, is how we decide who we are.”
“Incidentally, Boies, I'm sure, is a very fine lawyer.”
“When I was in my studio I didn't give a damn what sex I was... I thought art is art.”
“Are all men in disguise except those crying?”

Source : Dannie Abse (1986). “Ask the bloody horse”, Vintage
“The two super-powers cannot divide the world into their oyster.”
“In the fullness of time, when it is our turn to give, we must in turn plant gardens that we may never eat the fruit of, which will benefit the generations to come.”

Source : N. R. Narayana Murthy (2009). “A Better India, a Better World”, p.8, Penguin Books India

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