"Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity."

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Source : Stephen Vincent Benét (1990). “John Brown's Body”, Ivan R Dee

Stephen Vincent Benet

#Honesty Quotes #Men Quotes #Self Quotes

“I must have been sound asleep if i missed all that shouting-Simon What shouting?-Derek you mean that Chole just told you she followed a ghost onto a roof, and you didnt blast her all the way to Canada?-Simon He's a little off this morning-Chole More than a little i'll say.-Simon”
“When you love the unlovable and forgive the unforgivable, youâ€™re free.”
“Before we invented civilization our ancestors lived mainly in the open out under the sky. Before we devised artificial lights and atmospheric pollution and modern forms of nocturnal entertainment we watched the stars. There were practical calendar reasons of course but there was more to it than that. Even today the most jaded city dweller can be unexpectedly moved upon encountering a clear night sky studded with thousands of twinkling stars. When it happens to me after all these years it still takes my breath away.”
“My dads my best mate, and he always will be.”
“The feeling of being at sea has put me in touch with who I am to a greater degree than if I had been on land all these years. So, in a roundabout way, I imagine it does inform my acting.”
“The motivation comes from the embarrassment of having lost and the way it sits with you.”

Source : Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Canada and the United States have reached the point where we no longer think of each other as 'foreign' countries. We think of each other as friends, as peaceful and cooperative neighbors on a spacious and fruitful continent.”
“That is what poetry can do. It speaks to us of what does not exist, which is not only better than what exists, but even more like the truth.”

Source : Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1983). “First love”, Viking Adult

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