"No history much? Perhaps. Only this ominous Dark beauty flowering under veils, Trapped in the spectrum of a dying style: A village like an instinct left to rust, Composed around the echo of a pistol-shot."

-- Lawrence Durrell

#Dark Quotes #Echoes Quotes #Cities Quotes

“Without trying to clear up the degree of correctness of a qualification which no one, one must hope, will be asked to understand exactly, I will limit myself to a few words of explanation to cut short any misunderstandings.”
“Computers are good at following instructions, but not at reading your mind.”

Source : Donald Ervin Knuth (1984). “The texbook”, Addison-Wesley Professional
“The plain fact is that we are starving people, not deliberately in the sense that we want them to die, but wilfully in the sense that we prefer their death to our own inconvenience.”
“Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.”
“The bright bite in Mary Lee Kortes' voice [has] the high-mountain sunshine of Dolly Parton, with a sweet-iron undercoat of Chrissie Hynde.”
“Wall Street had been doing business with pieces of paper; and now someone asked for a dollar, and it was discovered that the dollar had been mislaid.”
“The struggle to get weapons is continuous, but the United States will aid us, if it finds Israel displaying a willingness for peace.”
“Robin Williams understands sonic performances. He understands what it's like to change your voice up.”

Source : Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. June 14, 2005.

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