"She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!"

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Henry James

#Darkness Quotes #Lighthouse Quotes

“Often in my lectures when I use the phrase â€œimperialist white-supremacist capitalist patriarchyâ€ to describe our nationâ€™s political system, audiences laugh. No one has ever explained why accurately naming this system is funny. The laughter is itself a weapon of patriarchal terrorism.”
“Now, I've changed my life to make sure I work only on what I love.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“If we're going to live as we are in a world of supply and demand, then journalists had better find a way to create a demand for good journalism.”
“The despondency that follows makes me feel somewhat like a shipwrecked man who spies a sail, sees himself saved, and suddenly remembers that the lens of his spyglass has a flaw, a blurred spot -- the sail he has seen.”
“Being Chinese immigrants in the United States, it was important for my parents to maintain ties that went back a long time. They led by example. My dad didn't bring his work pressures home. We were always aware of them and would go as kids to his office and run around. But when he came home, he was able to leave things behind, at least from our perspective, and focus on us.”
“No civilized person ever goes to bed the same day he gets up.”
“Now, when I was in the Army, writing was my hobby.”

Source : "Life Under the Necroscope: An Interview with Brian Lumley". Amazon Interview, www.brianlumley.com.
“The house of a childless person is a void, all directions are void to one who has no relatives, the heart of a fool is also void, but to a poverty stricken man all is void.”

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