"Seeing an Earl as an owl on a mantelpiece, and having part of one's face removed by a cat, both on the same morning, can temporarily undermine the self-control of any man."

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Mervyn Peake

#Morning Quotes #Cat Quotes #Men Quotes

“Many who have voted for the AfD, or who intend to do so, aren't doing so because they are dyed-in-the-wool enemies of democracy. Rather, they are desperate.”
“Vocal arrangements are something I'm working a lot with for the new songs.”

Source : Interview with Ryan Schreiber, pitchfork.com. February 13, 2006.
“When I first came out to L.A., Hollywoods idea of a Latina was Mexican. It was almost like they had never seen or heard of an Afro-Latina before.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Good must triumph over evil. It usually does in life and in any case it's bad for young people to believe it doesn't.”
“Our opportunities to give of ourselves are indeed limitless, but they are also perishable.”
“It was as important to live poetically as to write poems.”

Source : James Broughton (1990). “Special deliveries: new and selected poems”, Broken Moon Pr
“From Natchez to Mobile, from Memphis to St. Joe, wherever the four winds blowI been in some big towns an' heard me some big talk, but there is one thing I knowA woman's a two-face, a worrisome thing who'll leave ya to sing the blues in the night.”
“By becoming a conscious choice-maker, you begin to generate actions that are evolutionary for you.”

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