"My thoughts are crowded with death and it draws so oddly on the sexual that I am confused to be attracted by, in effect, my own annihilation."

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Source : "In Time Of Plague". Poem by Thom Gunn, www.theguardian.com. 1992.

Thom Gunn

#Confused Quotes #Aids Quotes #Annihilation Quotes

“I was not wrong. I was just misinformed.”
“On one of those rare occasions when Bach appraised his own life's work, he remarked: I worked hard.”
“The elegance of a mathematical theorem is directly proportional to the number of independent ideas one can see in the theorem and inversely proportional to the effort it takes to see them.”
“I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.”
“Every leader of a great revolution is a fanatic and a Jesuit.”
“The earth will end only when God declares it's time to be over. Man will not destroy this earth. This earth will not be destroyed by a flood.”

Source : "Faith in ignorance: Politicians who quote the Bible often don't know anything about the Bible". www.salon.com. October 8, 2016.
“A feller's glad to be a friend, Out fishin'. A helpin' hand he'll always lend, Out fishin' The brotherhood of rod and line An' sky an' stream is always fine; Men come real close to God's design, Out fishin'. A feller isn't plotting schemes, Out fishin'. He's only busy with his dreams, Out fishin' His livery is a coat of tan; His creed, to do the best he can; A feller's always mostly man Out fishin'.”
“There is a degree of wretchedness and want among the lower class of people which is not anywhere so common as among the Spanish and Portuguese settlements.”

Source : William Bligh (2012). “Mutiny on the Bounty”, p.28, Courier Corporation

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