"I write in praise of the solitary act: of not feeling a trespassing tongue forced into one's mouth, one's breath smothered, nipples crushed against the ribcage, and that metallic tingling in the chin set off by a certain odd nerve: unpleasure."

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Source : Fleur Adcock (2000). “Poems 1960-2000”, Bloodaxe Books Limited

Fleur Adcock

#Writing Quotes #Solitude Quotes #Feelings Quotes

“I left home the day after I graduated from high school because I knew we weren't going to make any dough to pay the rent in music.”
“I actually had an experience where I thought somebody was breaking into my house. That's got to be the most terrified I've ever been in my life. I don't know if that's saying much. The fear, especially as a female in a house by yourself, was horrible.”
“Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying.”

Source : Johannes Tauler, Charles Kingsley (1858). “The history and life of the Reverend Doctor John Tauler of Strasbourg: with twenty-five of his sermons (temp. 1340)”, p.384
“Such simple and steady acts of kindness are the essence of love, the substance of life. All of us need love; all of us want love. Everything else is a consolation prize. What matters is love.”
“Your true home is in the here and the now.”
“All men are liars, said Roberta Muldoon, who knew this was true because she had once been a man.”
“It's a little like casting out hundreds of fishing lines into the audience. You start getting little bites, then more, then you hook a few, then more. Then you can start reeling them in and that's a loveliest feeling - the whole audience laughing with you.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“An elite class that is free to operate without limits - whether limits imposed by the rule of law or fear of the responses from those harmed by their behavior - is an elite class that will plunder, degrade, and cheat at will, and act endlessly to fortify its own power.”

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