"Whom the gods do not intend to destroy, they first make mad with poetry."

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Source : Irving Layton (1989). “Selected Poems, 1945-89: A Wild Peculiar Joy”

Irving Layton

#Mad Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“I was a roving guard on the Lowell Hebrew Community Center's girls' basketball team all through high school. My specialty was stealing the ball, but my only shot was a lay-up.”
“I've never been able to write for myself. I was doing a lot. I produced The Green, I wrote it - I didn't see myself in the world of this film. I'm sure there are elements of dark corners of my psyche that found their ways on screen; you didn't need my mug up there. There was enough of my essence in the story as it plays out without me acting in it.”
“... for the modern soul, for which it is mere child's play to bridge oceans and continents, there is nothing so impossible as to find the contact with the souls dwelling just around the corner.”
“I'm a role model. I have overcome the negativity, and I'm playing.”
“The god of music dwelleth out of doors.”
“I love actors who are wonderful - like John Cusack and Russell Crowe, and wouldn't it be a treat to eventually direct them one day.”
“I like sweet wines. My idea has always been that when you're young, you like sweet wines; and then you get sophisticated, and you drink dry white; and then you get knowledgeable, and you drink heavy reds; and then you get old, and you drink sweet again.”
“It is cold at six-forty in the morning on a March day in Paris, and seems even colder when a man is about to be executed by firing squad.”

Source : Frederick Forsyth (1995). “The day of the jackal ; The dogs of war”

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