"The days draw out, the weather gets warmer, and it's what we call summer, with a bitter laugh when we've said it."

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Source : Stan Barstow (1981). “A Kind of Loving: The Vic Brown Trilogy”, Michael Joseph

Stan Barstow

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“There can be no passion, and by consequence no love, where there is not imagination.”
“When I go see a performer, I don't go to criticize. I just go to be entertained. I don't go to give advice; I just go to enjoy.”

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“The Great Commission will not be fulfilled with our spare time or spare money.”
“You should not quarrel with your neighbour, for he will remain where he is, but your high handedness will become the talk of the people.”
“This isn't a hunt that's going to kill just four or five gray whales. The repercussions of this will have an effect on tens of thousands of whales that will be killed by the Japanese and Norwegians.”
“Silence, too, can be torture.”
“Life is full of chances. Take it lightly.”
“A poet should leave traces of his passage, not proofs. Traces alone engender dreams.”

Source : "The French-American Review" by Texas Christian University, p. 132, 1976.

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