"Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean; it comes with the landscape, and faced with its beauty, the sigh of History dissolves."

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Source : Derek Walcott (2014). “What the Twilight Says: Essays”, p.68, Macmillan

Derek Walcott

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“Goodness is equally hateful to the wicked, as vice is to the virtuous.”
“The only thing in this world that gives orders is balls.”
“The serial bully, who in my estimation accounts for about one person in thirty in society, is the single most important threat to the effectiveness of organisations, the profitability of industry, the performance of the economy, and the prosperity of society.”
“Last year nothing happened The year before nothing happened And the year before that nothing happened.”

Source : Osamu Dazai (1968). “The Setting Sun”, p.37, New Directions Publishing
“I love vintage cars because you can do so much more to them.”
“I never object to a certain degree of disputatiousness in a young man from the age of seventeen to that of four or five and twenty, provided I find him always arguing on one side of the question.”
“The man who begins to go to bed forty minutes before he opens his bedroom door is bored; that is to say, he is not living.”
“Work is my joy... Work is my therapy, I don't know anybody who loves work as much as I do.”

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