"I don't think the British carry a historical consciousness either."

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Tom Paulin

#Thinking Quotes #Historical Quotes #Consciousness Quotes

“I think I throw the ball as hard as anyone. The ball just doesn't get there as fast.”
“Blanche is written with a terrible authority, the authority that comes from artistic necessity when the writer is compelled to write by his demon, rather than by his agent or promoter.”
“There is nothing -- absolutely nothing -- half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats. In or out of 'em, it doesn't matter. Nothing seems really to matter, that's the charm of it. Whether you get away, or whether you don't; whether you arrive at your destination or whether you reach somewhere else, or whether you never get anywhere at all, you're always busy, and you never do anything in particular; and when you've done it there's always something else to do, and you can do it if you like, but you'd much better not.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“The wind had seized the tree and ha, and ha, It held the shivering, the shaken limbs, Then bathed its body in the leaping lake.”
“There is no luck; you've got to make your luck. You've got to always be prepared-without trying to.”
“In economic terms, we've always thought of work as a disutility - as something you do to get something else. Now it's increasingly a utility - something that's valuable and worthy in its own right.”
“What do you say when someone has truly inspired you? How do you express to an artist how deeply their work has affected you?”

Source : Interview with Kate Bush, Spin magazine, gaffa.org. March 1994.
“These martyrs of patriotism gave their lives for an idea.”

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