"Ernest Bevin had many of the strongest characteristics of the English race. His manliness, his common sense, his rough simplicity, sturdiness and kind heart, easy geniality and generosity, all are qualities which we who live in the southern part of this famous island regard with admiration."

-- Ernest Bevin

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“I push against the tree and run away, stumbling, the unreal night playing with me, gravity pulling from below, behind, above, making me fall. And I run through a world that is rotating, conscious of the earth's spin, of our planet twirling as it careens through nothingness, of the stars spiraling above, of the uncertainty of everything, even ground, even sky. Mumtaz never calls out, although a thousand and one voices scream in my mind, sing, whisper, taunt me with madness.”
“It usually takes me two to three days to practice and videotape a new piece but sometimes up to a week for more difficult ones.”
“Here is the basic question: Are we marionettes, or are we creatures of free will who just happen to have a lot of jerky reflexes?”
“One is so apt to think of people's affection as a fixed quantity, instead of a sort of moving so with the tide, always going out or coming in but still fundamentally there: and I believe this difficulty in making allowance for the tide is the reason for half the broken friendships.”
“Basically, we're taking a product that would be sold in the cheapest way for dogs, and after this process, is being given to human beings.”
“I had no trouble communicating, the player's just didn't like what I had to say.”
“We are most of us very lonely in this world; you who have any who love you, cling to them and thank God.”
“If there is pain, nurse it, and if there is a flame, don't snuff it out, don't be brutal with it. Withdrawal can be a terrible thing when it keeps us awake at night, and watching others forget us sooner than we'd want to be forgotten is no better. We rip out so much of ourselves to be cured of things faster than we should that we go bankrupt by the age of thirty and have less to offer each time we start with someone new. But to feel nothing so as not to feel anything - what a waste! (p. 225)”

Source : "Call me by your name". Book by André Aciman, January 23, 2007.

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