"You are offered a piece of bread and butter that feels like a damp handkerchief and sometimes, when cucumber is added to it, like a wet one."

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Source : 'Vestal Fire' (1927) bk. 1, ch. 3

Compton Mackenzie

#Pieces Quotes #Cucumbers Quotes #Bread Quotes

“If we are to change America, we must change the United States Congress.”

Source : "In Their Own Words; Excerpts From The Remarks By Housing Secretary Kemp", www.nytimes.com. August 19, 1992.
“What is the most powerful lever you can imagine? A big idea, but only if it's in the hands of a truly outstanding entrepreneur. It starts with the person and the idea, and then grows to the institution. All three are intertwined.”
“Watching a spring training game is as exciting as watching a tree form its annual ring.”
“Apparently you have ample proof from experience that you're not going to stop world evil by debating your in-laws into submission, so it's okay to choose not to try.”

Source : "Carolyn Hax Live: Use the china (Nov. 20)". The Washington Post Live Chat, live.washingtonpost.com. November 20, 2015.
“Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.”
“I find myself only by losing myself.”

Source : Paul Ricoeur (2016). “Hermeneutics and the Human Sciences”, p.106, Cambridge University Press
“I seem to be a brief light that flashes but once in all the aeons of time a rare, complicated, and all-too-delicate organism on the fringe of biological evolution , where the wave of life bursts into individual, sparkling, and multicolored drops that gleam for a moment... only to vanish forever.”
“Hope is the mainspring of life.”

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