"The history of the race is but that of the individual "writ large"."

-- George Henry Lewes

#Race Quotes #Individual Quotes

“Each of us needs something - food, liquor, pot, whatever - to help us survive. Dracula needs blood.”
“If you want something you have to wait.”
“There are always people doing things wrong who need to be taught, for their own good. That's doable.”
“The raging fire which urged us on was scorching us; it would have burned us had we failed to restrain it.”
“Most importantly, what you get from a greasy spoon is a certain kind of smell that has been almost legislated out of existence. It is cigaretty, certainly, and it also has the catch-throat quality of smoking fat. It is a warm, companionable fug that rises to meet you as you step through the door on a late autumn day and it is how public places used to smell in my childhood in the 1970s. It is real, it is human, and it beats anything I know.”
“Friends are God's apology for relations.”

Source : In Michael Holroyd Best of Hugh Kingsmill (1970) p. 12
“Pick yourself up when you're feeling down. No one else is likely to.”
“Growing old beats the alternative - dying young.”

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