"When asked what was the proper time for supper: If you are a rich man, whenever you please; and if you are a poor man, whenever you can."

-- Diogenes

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“I was anti-everything and everyone. I didn't want people around me. This aversion was not some big crippling anxiety; merely a mature recognition of my own psychological vulnerability and my lack of suitability as a companion. Thoughts jostled for space in my crowded brain as i struggled to give them some order which might serve to motivate my listless life.”

Source : Irvine Welsh (1995). “The Acid House”, p.10, W. W. Norton & Company
“That's my girl," he murmured. "I'm not your girl." "Well," he said not bothering to hide his smile from her sightless eyes, "the good news is that the honey gave you back your sparkling personality." "And the bad news?" "The honey gave you back your sparkling personality.”
“Time and movement became really crucial to how I deal with what I deal with, not only sight and boundary but how one walks through a piece and what one feels and registers in terms of one's own body in relation to another body.”

Source : "“Charlie Brown”". Art21 Intreview, art21.org.
“There is beautiful you are." "No," said Marged, between a sigh and a sob. "Yes," said Owen. "No," said Marged, not so certain. "Behold," Owen said, from Solomon. "thou art fair. Thou hast dove's eyes." "Dove's eyes are small." Marged said. "Yours are so big they are my whole world," said Owen.”

Source : Richard Llewellyn (2009). “How Green Was My Valley”, p.77, Simon and Schuster
“I'm going to gather all the French people who want change.”
“But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false?”
“How can you wonder what's going to happen when you don't know who's going to be the new guy in town? It's the age-old thing - it's such a clichÃ© - but why worry about things you have no control over? What I can do is try to get this club to continue to play well. That's all I can do.”
“The older I get, the smarter my father seems to get.”

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