"I love living in London."

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Source : "Q&A: Trevor McDonald". Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. January 1, 2011.

Trevor McDonald

“You will never enjoy the sweetness of a quiet prayer unless you shut your mind to all worldly desires and temporal affairs.”
“Trivial facts are often the best hints to what is going on.”
“But when Warren has spoken on national security, she has invariably spouted warmed-over, banal Democratic hawk tripe of the kind that she just recited about Israel and Gaza. During her Senate campaign, for instance, she issued wildly militaristic - and in some cases clearly false - statements about Iran and its nuclear program that would have been comfortable on the pages of The Weekly Standard.”
“Is anything sadder than a trainThat leaves when it's supposed to,That has only one voice,Only one route?There's nothing sadder.Except perhaps a cart horse,Shut between two shaftsAnd unable even to look sideways.”
“Men often joke about this assignment (I Peter 3:7): 'Who can understand a woman?' Â God has answered the question loud and clear. Â You can. Â You can understand a woman. Â Husbands can understand wives if they will take the time and energy to focus on them as feminine persons who need their husbands' honor.”
“India is desperately romantic, utterly unashamed of its sentimentality, its generosity, its fierce pride and massive heart.”

Source : "Life on the hard shoulder" by Simon Beaufoy, www.theguardian.com. December 11, 2008.
“Somethingâ€™s died in me,â€ she goes. â€œIt took a long time for it to do it, but itâ€™s dead. Youâ€™ve killed something, just like youâ€™d took an axe to it. Everything is dirt now.”
“If permanent happiness comes with someone, Id leave everything.”

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