"Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means ... the need to be left. I am driven to grudging toleration of the Conservative Party because it is the party of non-politics, of resistance to politics."

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Source : Kingsley Amis (1968). “Lucky Jim's politics”

Kingsley Amis

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“Let the winds blow! a fiercer gale Is wild within me! what may quell That sullen tempest? I must sail Whither, O whither, who can tell!”

Source : Edmund Clarence Stedman (1873). “The Poetical Works of Edmund Clarence Stedman”, p.80
“DRS is like giving Picasso Photoshop.”
“If I were a person of color in Florida, I would pick up a brick and start walking toward that courthouse in Sanford. Those that do not, those that hold the pain and betrayal inside and somehow manage to resist violence - these citizens are testament to a stoic tolerance that is more than the rest of us deserve. I confess, their patience and patriotism is well beyond my own.”
“It's so funny looking back, but my so-called overnight success actually took 15 years. I remember when I didn't have any money, and my only car was mom's Hyundai.”
“My parents' parents were regular working-class people. I ended up speaking in a certain way, and one gets sidelined into doing certain parts. I think that is really quite narrow-minded.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Success is the reward for toil.”
“Why must we climb away to the seal-less parts of the world?”
“Iâ€™d take Bieber to the woodshed and spank him. His manager Scooter Braun is scared sh-tless. I donâ€™t know what Bieberâ€™s problem is. His career is over in three years anyway.”

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