"There is a road that turning always Cuts off the country of Again. Archers stand there on every side And as it runstime's deer is slain, And lies where it has lain."

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Source : 1937 'The Road'.

Edwin Muir

#Country Quotes #Time Quotes #Lying Quotes

“â€¢ The key to fighting is never to fight unless the cause is so great that you couldnâ€™t bear not to defend it and the losses you are going to suffer are things that you could afford to lose. If you do fight, the thing to remember is that it is going to hurt because that is what happens in a fight and you might as well reconcile yourself to it in the beginning and then it will not matter when it happens”
“Forgiveness must be immediate, whether or not a person asks for it. Trust must be rebuilt over time. Trust requires a track record.”
“I donâ€™t understand hate. Iâ€™ve seen its power. Iâ€™ve known its wrath. Iâ€™ve even felt it coursing through my veins, pushing me on. But I donâ€™t know where it comes from or why it lasts, how it can take hold in some people and grow.”
“Sleep is the most moronic fraternity in the world, with the heaviest dues and the crudest rituals. It is a mental torture I find debasing... I simply cannot get used to the nightly betrayal of reason, humanity, genius.”
“... the fallibility of human brains is in nothing more obvious than in proof reading.”
“Do we play Chicago again? I going to hit Othella Harrington right in the mouth. If he didn't have his clumsy ***** on the floor, I wouldn't have fell. How he got on the ground, I don't know. He's clumsy. Quote me on that. I'm going to get him.”
“And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposedâ€”if all records told the same taleâ€”then the lie passed into history and became truth. 'Who controls the past' ran the Party slogan, 'controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.”
“Whatever women do in life, they must do it twice as good as men in order to be considered as half as qualified. Fortunately, that's not very difficult.”

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