"Do not be tempted by English roses. Their beauty fades, but their thorns are forever."

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Libba Bray

#Rose Quotes #Forever Quotes #Thorns Quotes

“The kind of music or the kind of arrangements that I do, the kind of musicians I choose, is just what I like to hear.”
“Bisexuality is the proportional representation of sexuality in a world where most of us - straight or gay - operate a first-past-the-post system.”
“Recently Mr. Mawdsleyâ€™s donkey escaped from his stall, raced down the road, and somehow found his way into an enclosed pasture. Mr. Cairdâ€™s prized mare was innocently grazing when the ill-bred seducer had his way with her. Now it appears the mare has conceived, and a feud is raging between Caird, who demands financial compensation, and Mawdsley, who insists that had the pasture fencing been in better repair, the clandestine meeting would never have occurred. Worse still, it has been suggested that the mare is a shameless lightskirt and did not try nearly hard enough to preserve her virtue.”
“Just as primitive man believed himself to stand face to face with demons and believed that could he but know their names he would become their master, so is contemporary man faced by this incomprehensible, which disorders his calculations. "If I can but grasp it, if I can but cognise it", so he thinks, "I can make it my servant.”
“Advertising has done more to cause the social unrest of the 20th century than any other single factor.”
“To cease to think creatively is to cease to live”
“You can hesitate before deciding, but not once the decision is made.”
“God cannot catch us. Unless we stay in the unconscious room. Of our hearts.”

Source : Patrick Kavanagh (2002). “No Earthly Estate: God and Patrick Kavanagh : an Anthology”, Columba Press (IE)

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