"Theoretical webs, dirty webs, fusty webs, old and shrivelling away into nothingness, a fine dust.Who needs that kind of stuff. Far far better getting out into the open air and doing it, actually doing it, something solid and concrete and unconceptualisable."

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Source : 1989 A Disaffection.

James Kelman

#Dirty Quotes #Air Quotes #Dust Quotes

“We can either have a twenty-first-century conversation about morality and the human well-being - a conversation in which we avail ourselves of all scientific insights and philosophical arguments that have accumulated in the last two thousand years of human discourse - or we can confine ourselves to a first-century conversation as it is preserved in the Bible.”
“Itâ€™s all right,â€ the boy murmured as he felt her trembling. â€œMy grandmother always told me â€˜Never try to turn back on a new roadâ€”you donâ€™t know what adventures await you.”

Source : "Who Is Wayne Wonder?". Interview with Laura Gardner, jahworks.org. September 5, 2000.
“Some actors come to the set ready to do their parts a certain way.”
“All that I have accomplished ... has been by that plodding, patient, persevering process of accretion which builds the ant heap particle by particle, thought by thought, fact by fact.”

Source : Elihu Burritt (1846). “Sparks from the Anvil”, p.12
“Yes no yes no yes no? Red blue? Yes red, no blue? No red, yes no? In out, up down? Do don't, can can't? Choices sit on the shelf life New shoes in a shoe shop. If the in crowd are squeezing into a must-have shoe And the one pair left are too tiny for you Don't feel compelled into choosing them If you're really a size 9, buy that size. While everyone else Hobbles round with sore feet Your choices should feel comfortable Or they aren't your choices at all. Why limp when you can sprint”
“The most valuable of all capital is that invested in human beings”

Source : Alfred Marshall (2009). “Principles of Economics: Unabridged Eighth Edition”, p.469, Cosimo, Inc.
“At the end of the day, besides everything that I do, I'm still just a 20-year-old girl and a Texan, at that.”
“O drink is mighty! secrets it unlocks, Turns hope to fact, sets cowards on to box, Takes burdens from the careworn, finds out parts In stupid folks, and teaches unknown arts. What tongue hangs fire when quickened by the bowl? What wretch so poor but wine expands his soul?”

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