"Words become, 'product', so that it is as though you'd bought a 'hand-cooked' packet of crisps; there are different makes, various flavours, but in the end, they're all rather similar and while eating them while sipping white wine makes you feel posher than if you'd bought the bog-standard ones, afterwards you don't remember very much about them."

-- Suhayl Saadi

#Wine Quotes #Hands Quotes #White Quotes

“At some point you do not need to talk to have a conversation. The conversation exists whether you have it or not. It continues silently in a parallel dimension of the marriage. They both pause to let it run its course toward another stalemate.”
“You cannot know where your people are going if you don't know where your people have been.”
“The shallow end of hope is usually the deep end of grace.”
“I've never really gotten into the whole labels thing. There were times I would cover a pop song, and people would say 'You sound really country.' I gave up on that whole thing a long time ago.”
“No solution can ever be found by running in three different directions.”
“When you have a lot of fake selves, most of the time it's because you haven't had parents around so you try to build characters to protect yourself.”
“Rights don't come from human documents. The very idea is only worthy of contempt. Human documents are nothing but pieces of paper, they are nothing but words--until by will, and conscience, and courage, and commitment, human beings turn them into reality.”
“And now, dear Lord, I cannot wait Because I have a luncheon date.”

Source : John Betjeman (1970). “John Betjeman's collected poems”, John Murray Publishers

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