"In London, Man is the most secret animal on earth."

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Source : Laurie Lee (2015). “I Can't Stay Long”, p.43, Penguin UK

Laurie Lee

#Animal Quotes #Men Quotes #Secret Quotes

“If right and left are competing to be the biggest victim, who is competing to be the government?”
“Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister.”
“I never quite understand why we watch the news. There doesn't really seem much point watching somebody tell you what the news is when you could quite easily listen to it on the radio.”
“We have a Bill of Rights, which protects each of us from a bullying society, but no Bill of Responsibilities, which would oblige us to answer to the needs of others.”
“From her dubious tone alone, I could see how Karin had no idea how terrifying words spoken quietly could be. How words chosen precisely to wreak maximum damage ticked like a bomb in your head, but exploded in your heart hours later, leaving you scarred and changed.”
“Both trials are marred with injustice, both are flawed.”
“Certainly, if we believe in democracy and democratic systems, when [Benazir Bhutto] failed to pass any legislation, really, at all in her first two years in government during her first term and in fact had a tenure that was marked not only by gross corruption but by human rights abuses, that should have been a time for people to say, "Well, OK, we've given you an opportunity and you haven't bettered the institutions, you haven't strengthened the democratic cause - we may not vote you back."”

Source : Source: www.sbs.com.au
“A lot of people wonder how you can tell if you're really in love. Just ask yourself this question: 'Would I mind being financially destroyed by this person?'”

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