"Englishmen have a genius for looking uncomfortable. Their feelings are terribly mixed up with their personal appearance."

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Source : Sara Jeannette Duncan (2012). “A Voyage of Consolation (being in the nature of a sequel to the experiences of 'An American girl in London')”, p.165, tredition

Sara Jeannette Duncan

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“These are beautiful days. Folks ask what I'm doing. I tell them I'm doing family.”
“Growth always involves the risk of failure.”

Source : Howard Thurman (1963). “Disciplines of the spirit”, Friends United Pr
“I have a lot of experience in playing all sorts of venues. And one of my interests is to understand what constitutes the vibe of a place and what makes one concert different from another. You can't fully measure or calculate these things, yet they are absolutely evident once you're on stage.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“PMP was in an almost diametrically opposite situation to Fairfax.”
“And, because my role in society Ââ€”or any artist or poet's roleâ€” is to try to express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel, not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all. And it's like that's the job of the artist in society, not toâ€¦ they're not some alienated being living on the outskirts of town. It's fine to live on the outskirts of town, but artists must reflect what we all are. [â€¦] If that's taken it too much on meself, I feel that artists are that: they're reflections of societyâ€¦ mirrors.”
“Thou slanting rain! Thou Hebe of the Skies, That pours out drink to Earth; thou faithful wife That with moist tears embraces her prone lord. Thou mist intensified; thou double dew That drowns the drought, that heals the parched and burnt -- Thou resurrection rain.”

Source : William Batchelder Greene (1888). “Cloudrifts at Twilight”
“There he is, a woman's living, breathing fantasy, doing his slow, cocky turn, spiky black hair, darkly tanned chest, dimpled smile-killer smile-all in the package of Remington Tate. He's perfection itself, and a new surge of hormones sweeps through me as I do what the rest of the crowd does and take in his visual, so blatantly on display in those low riding boxing shorts and so strikingly sexy, he becomes the center of my attention. The center. Of my. World.”
“My habit of attacking Huns dangling from their parachutes led to many arguments in the mess. Some officers, of the Eton and Sandhurst type, thought it was 'unsportsmanlike' to do it. Never having been to a public school, I was unhampered by such considerations of form. I just pointed out that there was a bloody war on, and that I intended to avenge my pals.”

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