"I'm always interested in debunking myths if they are untrue. But it's also important to identify myths and how they function, what value they may have."

-- Neal Ascherson

#Important Quotes #May Quotes #Function Quotes

“My purpose is to have American Jews look away from the success story with which they've cheered themselves up, and to have them remember the classical tradition, whatever it is.”
“The difference between a good and great officer is about ten seconds.”
“Why, I hold fate Clasped in my fist, and could command the course Of time's eternal motion, hadst thou been One thought more steady than an ebbing sea.”
“The human animal began as a mere wriggling thing in the ancient seas, struggling out onto land with many regrets. That is what brings us so full of longing to the sea.”

Source : Sebastian Barry (2008). “The Secret Scripture”, p.115, Faber & Faber
“I feel like you have to tell people who you are, but you don't have to be disrespectful about it. But you also don't have to be a shrinking violet.”
“What I love about New York is just the electricity I feel right away.”
“It seems that England's royal family is running out of money. They are down to just $1.6 million. Well sure, that's what happens when nobody in your family has had a job for the last thousand years.”
“When prayer fades out, power fades out. We are as spiritual as we are prayerful; no more, no less.”

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