"Schools don't really allow failure and yet it's part of any endeavour, not just writing."

-- Roddy Doyle

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“Despite the enormous role that local government plays in our daily lives, the constitution makes not one mention of it.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“We're facing growing climate change, more floods, more droughts, more crisis on a planetary level, and the systems we put in place in the twentieth century are just not going to work. We've run out of stuff. Our big problems are going to be energy supplies and food supplies. This is not a right-left issue. It's a people issue, and it cuts across all our categories.”
“When a book of mine comes out, I instantly go hunting the net, not for praise, but for criticism, because that's how you learn, from people who don't have to be polite to you.”
“What is the price of a thousand horses against a son where there is one son only?”

Source : John Millington Synge (2014). “Synge: Complete Plays: In the Shadow of the Glen; Riders to the Sea; The Tinker's Wedding; The Well of the Saints; The Playboy of the Western World; Deirdre of the Sorrows”, p.98, Bloomsbury Publishing
“Four predictions of the Big Bang Theory have now been verified - surely enough to quench even the most biased critics.”

Source : "The Dark Side of the Universe". Astronomy and Geophysics, April 2007.
“We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love.”
“Earth bears no balsams for mistakes; Men crown the knave, and scourge the tool That did his will: but thou, O Lord, Be merciful to me, a fool.”

Source : Edward Rowland Sill, “The Fool's Prayer”
“Itâ€™s an old Orc axe, which means heâ€™s been in battle. Orcs have killed members of his family, and heâ€™s trying to find the Orc that did it to him so that he can give it back. But as the journey goes on, Bifur actually becomes more lucid. He becomes a bit more focused, and the journey is a bit healing for him.”

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