"The Welsh are not like any other people in Britain, and they know how separate they are. They are the Celts, the tough little wine-dark race who were the original possessors of the island, who never mixed with the invaders coming later from the east, but were slowly driven into the western mountains."

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Source : Laurie Lee (2015). “I Can't Stay Long”, p.89, Penguin UK

Laurie Lee

#Wine Quotes #Dark Quotes #Islands Quotes

“The relationship with a live audience seems to me to count for more.”
“I'm against an all-white anything or an all-black anything.”
“Im just trying to be positive. I like the guys (Im) around. Even though were not at the record Id like to be, even after a loss, guys are mad, but then we have fun and you move on. They look up to me. Ive been around eight years. A lot of these guys were in junior high or high school when I came into the NBA. I see how much of an influence I am off the court. I try to be careful how I approach things on and off the court, because I know these guys are watching.”
“When my father made 'Jean de Florette' and 'Manon des Sources' back to back, everybody said, 'Why two movies?' But you need two movies to show how criminality evolves, and to tell the story: You can't show a man in love with so many women in one big biopic.”
“...a magical CO2 knob for controlling weather and climate simply does not exist!”
“Man has made many machines, complex and cunning, but which of them indeed rivals the workings of his heart?”
“I hate people walking down the street listening to the soundtrack of their lives which responds to them but not their setting. I hate the overspill of sound which metro and subway riders are oblivious to because they notice no one and nothing around them.”
“When we speak truth to power we are ignored at best and brutally suppressed at worst”

Source : "Jeremy Hammond Sentenced To 10 Years In Prison" by Matt Sledge and Alyona Minkovski, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 15, 2013.

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