"I respect a man who can recognize a quotation. It's a dying art."

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Source : David Lodge (2011). “The Campus Trilogy: Changing Places; Small World; Nice Work”, p.433, Penguin

David Lodge

#Art Quotes #Men Quotes #Dying Quotes

“I write because I'm a writer. It is rather like cooking: to make something out of the raw material at hand.”
“If a man's patience is stronger than his whims and desires, then he is like an angel, but if his whims and desires are stronger than his patience, then he is like a devil. If his desire for food, drink and sex is stronger than his patience, then he is no better than an animal.”
“Sice Karate exists for cultivating the spirit and training the body, it must be a moral way surpassing mere techniques...”
“Vision without execution is delusion.”
“Bart Giamatti did not grow up (as he had dreamed) to play second base for the Red Sox. He became a professor at Yale, and then, in time president of the National Baseball League. He never lost his love for the Boston Red Sox. It was as a Red Sox fan, he later realized that human beings are fallen, and that life is filled with disappointment. The path to comprehending Calvinism in modern America, he decided, begins at Fenway Park.”
“I get to sing a great song called "Proud of your boy" which was by Alan Menken and Howard Ashman and they were so hurt when it had to be cut from the film [Aladdin]. They were not happy. For the sake of the film, they had to streamline everything.”

Source : Source: www.blackfilm.com
“People talk about love as if it were something you could give, like an armful of flowers.”
“A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.”

Source : Jack London (2015). “The Road: Classic American Literature”, p.3, 谷月社

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