"He scooped up my arm, swung me round. â€œLet go, Cecil,â€ I said. â€œIâ€™ve a strange dislike of being forced.â€ â€œBut Briony,â€ he said, â€œIâ€™m so full of good spirits. I could walk to London, I think!â€ Why didnâ€™t he?"

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Franny Billingsley

#Letting Go Quotes #Thinking Quotes #London Quotes

“Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap peopleâ€™s brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead. When independent-thinking people (and here I do not include the corporate media) begin to rally under flags, when writers, painters, musicians, film makers suspend their judgment and blindly yoke their art to the service of the â€œNation,â€ itâ€™s time for all of us to sit up and worry.”
“I say "cheers" to everything.”
“Young people are at risk of being disinherited from their community if that community lacks the courage and confidence to teach its history.”

Source : Australia Day Address, January 25, 2006.
“I highly regret this day in advance.”
“The poem is always the last resort. In it the poet makes a world in little, and finds peace, even though, under complete focused emotion, the evocation be far more bitter than reality, or far more lovely.”

Source : Louise Bogan, Ruth Limmer (1981). “Journey around my room: the autobiography of Louise Bogan : a mosaic”, Viking Pr
“Whenever there is any doubt, there is no doubt.”
“The girls who were unanimously considered beautiful often rested on their beauty alone. I felt I had to do things, to be intelligent and develop a personality in order to be seen as attractive. By the time I realized maybe I wasn't plain and might even possibly be pretty, I had already trained myself to be a little more interesting and informed.”
“How do we redefine education so that 30-50 percent of inner-city children do not drop out of school, thus ensuring that millions will end up in prison?”

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