"All writers - all people - have their stores of private and family legends which lie like a collection of half-forgotten, often violent toys on the floor of memory."

-- V. S. Pritchett

#Memories Quotes #Lying Quotes #People Quotes

“Patience expands your options. If you insist on immediate gratification, your choices are severely limited.”
“Eighty and six years have I served Him, and He never did me any injury: how then can I blaspheme my King and my Savior?”
“I am not a British isolationist. I don't just want a better deal for Britain. I want a better deal for Europe too.”

Source : "David Cameron speech: UK and the EU". www.bbc.com. January 23, 2013.
“There is a certain kind of person who is so dominated by the desire to be loved for himself alone that he has constantly to test those around him by tiresome behavior; what he says and does must be admired, not because it is intrinsically admirable, but because it is his remark, his act. Does not this explain a good deal of avant-garde art?”
“Developing low carbon sources of energy supply will enhance our energy security”
“Many of them have accomplished a lot before they ever get to 'Top Chef' although they're not well known. The show just provides them with a platform. There's just one winner and on some seasons you can get numerous chefs that are really good. Even if they don't win, they're all talented.”
“There is a strange and mighty race of people called the Americans who are rapidly becoming the coldest in the world because of this cruel, man-eating idol, lucre.”

Source : Edward Dahlberg (1967). “Alms for Oblivion”, U of Minnesota Press
“Be believing, be happy, don't get discouraged. Things will work out.”

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