"October's bellowing anger breakes and cleavesThe bronzed battalions of the stricken woodIn whose lament I hear a voice that grievesFor battle's fruitless harvest, and the feudOf outrage men. Their lives are like the leavesScattered in flocks of ruin, tossed and blownAlong the westering furnace flaring red.O martyred youth and manhood overthrown,The burden of your wrongs is on my head."

-- Siegfried Sassoon

#Men Quotes #Voice Quotes #Battle Quotes

“Oily marks appear on walls / Where pleasure moments hung before”

Source : Song: Hide and Seek, Album: Speak for Yourself, 2005
“Yes, exactly. I think that Christmas is always used at any point in the year to cheer us up, like each other up. We would use that to cheer each other up if we were in a sad mood or something, we'd just start talking about Christmas.”
“You know what ? Certain people think they will feel good if certain things happen The trick is : you have to feel good for no reason”
“Cinema d'auteur, cinema about people, about emotions. About la difficultÃ© d'Ãªtre, the difficulty of being, existential problems. That's what the nouvelle vague is. The early '60s was all about that.”

Source : Interview with Zoë Wolff, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 31, 2014.
“It is not easy to be a Witch, a bender, a shaper, one of the Wise; nor is it safe, comfortable, laid back, mellow, uplifting, or a guarantee of Peace of mind. It requires openness, vulnerability, courage and work. It gives no answers, only tasks to be done and questions to consider....It functions in those deeper ways of knowing which our culture has denied and for which we hunger.”
“After Proust, there are certain things that simply cannot be done again. He marks off for you the boundaries of your talent.”
“Citizenship consists in the service of the country.”
“You want The Next Big Thing? Let me take my pants off!”

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