"Make a mark; don't be part of the living dead."

--

Source : "Terry Matthews: A well-connected Celt" by David Gow, www.theguardian.com. October 27, 2000.

Terry Matthews

“No, Zoey." Heat sounded pissed. It's not okay here. Not for you." Well, maybe that's 'cause I'm not dead. Yet.”
“There [is] a feeling of recognition, as of meeting an old friend, which comes to us all in the face of great artistic experiences. I had the same experience when I first heard an English folksong, when I first saw Michelangelo's Day and Night, when I suddenly came upon Stonehenge or had my first sight of New York City - the intuition that I had been there already.”

Source : "R.V.W.: A Biography of Ralph Vaughan Williams". Book by Ursula Vaughan Williams, p. 30, "Musical Autobiography" (1950), 1964.
“Business is really more agreeable than pleasure; it interests the whole mind, the aggregate nature of man more continuously, and more deeply. But it does not look as if it did.”
“All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.”

Source : Anatole France (2016). “The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard”, p.186, Anatole France
“This isn't funny. She was almost killed.' 'I'm aware. You're waiting to see if I will get angry.' 'I already know you're angry. You're sitting very still and you're talking very quietly. You're getting ready to kill someone.' 'I just need a name.”
“My wives will be mine in eternity.”

Source : Joseph Fielding Smith (1972). “Doctrines of Salvation: Sermons and Writings”
“I welcomed the organization of the Anti-slavery Society.”
“Humankind can tolerate only so much rejection.”

Source : William Boyd (2003). “Any human heart: a novel”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

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