"happiness makes us older, less romantic, less in need of dreams. Discontent, not happiness, is the food of youth and poetry."

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Source : Nan Fairbrother (1954). “An English Year”

Nan Fairbrother

#Dream Quotes #Needs Quotes #Youth Quotes

“But it seemed to me that as soon as you have computer storage you could put every point you wanted in - make the ones that are less relevant to your central topic, further away or allow the central topic to move as the reader proceeded.”
“The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.”
“A mathematician who is not also something of a poet will never be a complete mathematician.”
“There are no lost opportunities in Divine Mind, as one door shuts another door is opened.”
“Treason is very much a matter of habit, Smiley decided.”
“John Cleese once told me he'd do anything for money. So I offered him a pound to shut up, and he took it.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“... the United States, for generations, has sustained two parallel but opposed states of mind about military atrocities and human rights: one of U.S. benevolence, generally held by the public, and the other of ends-justify-the-means brutality sponsored by counterinsurgency specialists. Normally the specialists carry out their actions in remote locations with little notice in the national press. That allows the public to sustain its faith in a just America, while hard-nosed security and economic interests are still protected in secret.”
“When we neglect the artist in ourselves, there is a kind of mourning that goes on under the surface of our busy lives.”

Source : Pat Schneider (2003). “Writing Alone and with Others”, p.42, Oxford University Press

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