"Crowded places, I shunned them as noises too rude / And flew to the silence of sweet solitude."

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Source : John Clare, Eric Robinson, David Powell (2004). “Major Works”, p.413, Oxford University Press, USA

John Clare

#Sweet Quotes #Silence Quotes #Rude Quotes

“For some strange reason, we believe that anyone who lived before we were born was in some peculiar way a different kind of human being from any we have come in contact with in our own lifetime. This concept must be changed; we must realize in our bones that almost everything in time and history has changed except the human being.”

Source : Uta Hagen (2009). “Respect for Acting”, p.104, John Wiley & Sons
“He seems the incarnation of everything soft and silky and velvety, without a sharp edge in his composition, a dreamer whose philosophy is sleep and let sleep.”
“The anger of the weak never goes away, Professor, it just gets a little moldy. It molds like a beautiful blue cheese in the dark, growing stronger, and more interesting. The poor and the weak die with all their anger intact and probably those angers go on growing in the dark of the grave like the hair and the nails.”
“My friends and I were wild and we liked to joy-ride.”
“Closing one's ears to the complaints of partisans would also entail closing one's mind to the substance of their arguments.”
“I actually do mind having a photo taken because it's one o'clock in the morning and I'm off my face.”
“The thrust of continuous action is the firewood which fuels motivation.”
“Or maybe, he thought, returning to the boxes, it was part of being Catholic--you were made to feel guilty about everything”

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