"We find we breathe again, and hear the surgeon hum. Outside, in the street, a car starts up. The heart regularly Thunders."

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Source : James Kirkup (1996). “An extended breath: collected longer poems and sequences”

James Kirkup

#Heart Quotes #Car Quotes #Breathe Quotes

“The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.”
“Thus I assume that to each according to his threat advantage is not a conception of justice.”
“I think, in all honesty, the first place that someone in emotional distress should turn is their loved ones, and then to use professionals.”
“You can't really divorce women's struggles in the world from women's in the cinema. As long as there's hierarchy it means that women are somehow secondary or second class or less than. That's going to be reflected in movies because films are the most powerful medium to reflect back society's view of itself”
“To be able to enjoy one's past life is to live twice.”
“The only thing I wanted to do when I was a young naive kid was to become a New York stage actor.”
“Sometimes when I teach a student something that I think is really simple, I realize I'm teaching them something they can do 90 percent of really easily and the last 10 percent is going to take them 10 years.”
“Yes, I don’t have any talent. That’s why I work hard.”

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