"Happiness was different in childhood. It was so much then a matter simply of accumulation, of taking things - new experiences, new emotions - and applying them like so many polished tiles to what would someday be the marvellously finished pavilion of the self."

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Source : FaceBook post by John Banville from Oct 15, 2016

John Banville

#Self Quotes #Childhood Quotes #Matter Quotes

“After 4 years on NYPD Blue it has been nice to have the summer off and spend time with family and friends. There are a few projects I am interested in and plan to be working this fall.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Join the union, girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work.”
“They fought indeed and were slain, but it was to maintain the luxury and the wealth of other men.”
“Kisses open doors, I've noticed. That one gesture can unlock secrets, ease open feelings. It can't be prevented--these kisses just are. It's how they work. They break into basements you never knew you had.”
“He is coming! He is coming! Like a bridegroom from his room, Came the hero from his prison To the scaffold and the doom.”

Source : 1848 Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers and other Poems,'The Execution of Montrose', stanza14.
“Each time one of the medicine men dies, it's as if a library has burned down.”
“The most basic law of economics?that one cannot get something for nothing.”

Source : 1948 Towards a Dynamic Economics.
“Sometimes I get really shy when people recognize me, but when it was from Arrested, I'd be like, "So what do you like about it? You watch it? Will you try to watch it when it's on, and not just TiVo it? Because if you don't want it to be taken off the air...." It was really sad when it got taken off the air. But it's really cool. It was nice to have a small part in something with a big life.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com

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