"Choosing between day and night. Edgar and Heathcliff."

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Source : Eileen Favorite (2009). “The Heroines: A Novel”, p.183, Simon and Schuster

Eileen Favorite

#Night Quotes #Day And Night Quotes #Heathcliff Quotes

“In theory, taxes should be like shopping. What I buy is government services. What I pay are my taxes.”
“Interceded? You threw me to the sharks!”
“The concept that really gets the goat of the gay-hater, the idea that really spins their melon and sickens their stomachs is that most terrible and terrifying of all human notions, love. That one can love another of the same gender, that is what the homophobe really cannot stand. Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the world's full octave. Love as Agape, Eros and Philos; love as infatuation, obsession and lust; love as torture, euphoria, ecstasy and oblivion (this is beginning to read like a Calvin Klein perfume catalogue); love as need, passion and desire.”
“Patriotism without criticism has no head; criticism without patriotism has no heart.”
“I actually started the whole project some years ago with a live debut at Ancienne Belgique in Brussels. The focus was mainly on my favorite period of Billie Holiday, which was the late-50s Verve recordings, with essentially a small version of the Count Basie band.”

Source : Source: revive-music.com
“Quit living as if the purpose of life is to arrive safely at death.”

Source : Twitter post from Oct 01, 2014
“Obviously all of us have thought about Vietnam, particularly in my generation in Australia that were part of conscription and fought there. Our friends came back, forever changed. So there were a lot of questions.”
“When you are seventeen you aren't really serious.”

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