"Easier to climb up, than to just hang on."

-- Ronald Harwood

#Hiking Quotes #Easier Quotes #Climbs Quotes

“It was an incredible way to grow up, because words that you're taught - these definite things - you realize they sort of beautifully fall apart; that words are tenuous. In the middle of a large word, there's a small word that possibly contradicts the larger word. So I grew up where, on the one hand, the only thing I would ever think of doing was something in writing, music, or art, and on the other hand, I could've reacted strongly against it because it would've been a way to rebel.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Italianate Englishmen are incarnate devils ... for they first lustfully condemn God, then scornfully mock his word, and also spitefully hate and hurt all the well wishers thereof.... They count as fables the holy mysteries of religion.”
“His heart felt dangerously full, for the first time in years. That dried-up battered organ, suddenly flush with love. It could kill him.”

Source : Maile Meloy (2010). “Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It”, p.173, Canongate Books
“Back then, if you had a sore arm, the only people concerned were you and your wife. Now it's you, your wife, your agent, your investment counselor, your stockbroker, and your publisher.”
“Darwinism has laid the groundwork for Hitler's and Mussolini's fascism and Stalin's communism.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“But he who knows what insanity is, is sane; whereas insanity can no more be sensible of its own existence, than blindness can see itself.”

Source : Apuleius (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Apuleius (Illustrated)”, p.668, Delphi Classics
“There is no word or action but may be taken with two hands,--either with the right hand of charitable construction, or the sinister interpretation of malice and suspicion; and all things do succeed as they are taken. To construe an evil, action well is but a pleasing and profitable deceit to myself; but to misconstrue a good thing is a treble wrong,--to myself, the action, and the author.”
“My son is the reason why I write music. He's the reason why everything is different for me.”

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