"I don’t want money. What the hell’s money good for? You can’t drive it and you can’t eat it and it won’t even fix a flat."

-- Pat Frank

#Want Quotes #Hell Quotes #Flats Quotes

“O what is it about having one's own Babe upon one's Hip that makes a Woman wish to go home to her Mother? A Desire to say: 'Look, the Circle is compleat'? A Desire to say: 'Look, I have cross'd the Divide and now am more like you'? A Desire to say: 'Look, this Babe I offer you is my most precious Gift'?”
“Literature for meâ€¦ tries to heal the harm done by stories. (How much harm? Most of the atrocities of history have been created by stories, e.g., the Jews killed Jesus.) I follow Sartre that the freedom the author claims for herself must be shared with the reader. So that would mean that literature is stories that put themselves at the disposal of readers who want to heal themselves. Their healing power lies in their honesty, the freshness of their vision, the new and unexpected things they show, the increase in power and responsibility they give the reader.”
“I am incredibly proud of the many journalists I have worked with throughout my career and the great campaigns that we have fought and won.”

Source : "Watch Rebekah Brooks' emotional speech in which she says she feels ''vindicated'' by phone hacking verdicts" by Jason Beattie, www.mirror.co.uk. June 26, 2014.
“Language is an old-growth forest of the mind.”

Source : Wade Davis, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (2009). “The wayfinders: why ancient wisdom matters in the modern world”, House of Anansi Pr
“A man ought to do what he thinks is right”
“The soul lives there in the silent breath.”
“Having lived in the arid deserts of Southern California since the 1970s, my interest in water conservation is a very personal concern. Water! The source of life! Some people are squandering the world's most precious resource while others have too little clean water to drink.”
“The consequences for human welfare involved in questions about human capital spillovers are simply staggering. Once one starts to think about them, it's hard to think of anything else”

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