"I learnt all the words worthy of the court of blood So that I could break the rule I learnt all the words and broke them up To make a single word: Homeland.."

-- Mahmoud Darwish

#Blood Quotes #Broke Quotes #Break Quotes

“If you can imagine it, we can make it.”
“The most I've spent on shoes were a pair from Kurt Geiger for Â£250.”
“Wisdom sets bounds even to knowledge.”
“Rather than attend to a world considered as if it's out there, I have to start to attend to me. That led to some things that I never wanted it to lead to, person as a sort of psychological miasma. I started to get wrapped up in self, and then, for the first time, self did become an autobiographical self.”

Source : Interview with Shelley Jackson, believermag.com. January 1, 2007.
“I didn't aim at anything except good music.”
“To a Mistress Dying Lover. YOUR beauty, ripe and calm and fresh As eastern summers are, Must now, forsaking time and flesh, Add light to some small star. Philosopher. Whilst she yet lives, were stars decay'd, Their light by hers relief might find; But Death will lead her to a shade Where Love is cold and Beauty blind. Lover. Lovers, whose priests all poets are, Think every mistress, when she dies, Is changed at least into a star: And who dares doubt the poet wise? Philosopher. But ask not bodies doom'd to die To what abode they go; Since Knowledge is but Sorrow's spy, It is not safe to know.”

Source : Sir William Davenant (1872). “Dramatic Works of William D'Avenant”, p.265
“I thought, This is fabulous. It sent shivers up my spine. I thought, What kinds of people are these that would produce this kind of music in a camp? All the prison camp stories I've seen, and heard of, were about the heroism of men. As I researched this and heard the music, I realized that women were heroic too, on just as grand a scale. And their treatment was just as appalling.”
“Two religions cannot both be right, because they contradict each other, yet they can both be wrong.”

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