"A brain of feathers, and a heart of lead."

-- Alexander Pope

#Sarcastic Quotes #Heart Quotes #Brain Quotes

“The academy is an incredibly sheltered world, and I do think it's important for writers to get out from under that shelter, at least for a while, to see what the world looks like from outside it.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com
“If peace can only come through killing someone, then I don't want it.”
“Clothes therefore, must be the insignia of the superiority of man over all other animals, for surely there could be no other reason for wearing the hideous things”
“Where one is present, God is the second, and where there are two, God is the third.”
“We were very - we were a working family, and my father had this very simple philosophy, simple working class approach. If you spoke to my father and said, "Mr Smith across the road, what do you think of Mr Smith?", he'd only - he'd only say a couple of words. He'd say, "He's a worker", and that meant this bloke got up in the morning, went out, worked, brought his money home, fed his wife and kids, housed them, got them to school, educated them, made sure they were safe and all that. It had so much connotations to it.”
“It seems far-fetched, even preposterous, to blame the global economic order for the persistence of severe poverty in countries that are ruled by obvious thugs and crooks.”
“I suppose [...] that the most convincing way to fool an enemy would be to fool a friend.”

Source : Anne Bishop (2007). “Heir to the Shadows: The Black Jewels Trilogy 2”, p.35, Penguin
“She must have sensed she never really had him. That was a sadness of hers, he knew.”

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