"Behind their dark glass, the mad own nothing."

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Source : Penelope Fitzgerald, Charlotte Mary Mew (1988). “Charlotte Mew and her friends: with a selection of her poems”, Addison-Wesley

Penelope Fitzgerald

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“Men are men, vows are words, and words are wind.”

Source : George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Dance with Dragons: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Five”, p.536, Bantam
“I never had any acting heroes. I never really went to the theatre.”
“Stillness is your essential nature.”
“Good isn't my thing but Sawyer's important to me. Please remember I've got my limits and you studying my mouth like you want a taste is pushing me dangerously close to the edge of those limits.”

Source : Abbi Glines (2013). “The Vincent Boys Extended and Uncut Collection: The Vincent Boys -- Extended and Uncut; The Vincent Brothers -- Extended and Uncut”, p.43, Simon and Schuster
“Make time for prayer and reflection; try to understand your value as a man on earth but see, too, your proper place in the scheme of things. It may sound funny to say this, but I have come to see that we are all far more important and less important than we think.”
“Biodiversity is the greatest treasure we have... Its diminishment is to be prevented at all cost.”
“Why has there been so much secrecy about AIDS? When you ask where did the virus come from, it raises a lot of flags. That makes me suspicious.”
“Politics is a substitute for violence.”

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