"I was an intimate sort of child who never spoke up in groups. I preferred close friends."

-- Ian Mcewan

#Children Quotes #Groups Quotes #Close Friends Quotes

“If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.”

Source : Marcel Proust (2002). “In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower”, Viking Press
“Whenever I go and see the FÃ¼hrer, I've got a loaded pistol in my pocket.”
“Shepperton Church was a very different looking building five-and-twenty years ago. To be sure, its substantial stone tower looks at you through its intelligent eye, the clock, with the friendly expression of former days; but in everything else what changes!”
“Music is one of the only inanimate things we have left. It can still be mystical, magical and awe-inspiring”
“Everyone used to want to be star architects. That's no longer the case.”
“Laws are generally found to be nets of such a texture, as the little creep through, the great break through, and the middle-sized are alone entangled in it.”

Source : 'Essays on Men, Manners, and Things' 'On Politics' in 'Works' (1764) vol. 2.
“Peter finds the lost, the left-behind, the abused. Is that not why you are here? Did Peter not save you?”
“As a general rule, I would say that human beings never behave more badly toward one another than when they believe they are protecting God.”

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