"When you are desperate to get someone who isn't all that interested in you, you lay siege as hard as you can."

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Source : "Jolly good Fellowes". Interview with Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. November 27, 2004.

Julian Fellowes

#Siege Quotes #Desperate Quotes

“St. Seraphim, like Francis of Assisi, talked to animals. One day two nuns saw him deep in conversation with a bear. The bears of the Russian forests are very ferocious, and the two women were terrified. But Seraphim reassured them and showed them that he who is sanctified lives in peace with all creation, just as Adam did before the Fall.”
“Praise the green earth. Chance has appointed her home, workshop, larder, middenpit. Her lousy skin scabbed here and there by cities provides us with name and nation.”

Source : Basil Bunting (2016). “The Poems of Basil Bunting”, p.48, Faber & Faber
“Not to write, for many of us, is to die. We must take ares each and every day, perhaps knowing that the battle cannot be entirely won, but fight we must, if only a gentle bout. The smallest effort to win means, at the end of each day, a sort of victory.”
“In smart society men are jealous of one another after the fashion of women.”
“Over the years, confusing fragments, lost corners of stories, have a clearer meaning when seen in a new light, a different place.”
“One must keep working continuously; otherwise, one thinks of death.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I get called 'Memphis Eve,' but my first name is Eve. I know Memphis is in there somewhere, but on my passport I'm 'Eve Sunny Day Hewson.”
“A plumber is an adventurer who traces leaky pipes to their source.”

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