"Love is the only real patriation, and without one's dear one sits in a dreary and boring exile."

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Source : Sylvia Townsend Warner, Valentine Ackland, Susanna Pinney (1998). “I'll stand by you: selected letters of Sylvia Townsend Warner and Valentine Ackland : with narrative by Sylvia Townsend Warner”, Random House (UK)

Sylvia Townsend Warner

#Real Quotes #Love Is Quotes #Boring Quotes

“There is only one writer in whom I find something that reminds me of the directness of style which is found in the Bible. It is Shakespeare.”
“The weak in courage is strong in cunning.”
“In JavaScript, there is a beautiful, elegant, highly expressive language that is buried under a steaming pile of good intentions and blunders.”

Source : Douglas Crockford (2008). “JavaScript: The Good Parts: The Good Parts”, p.2, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
“I always thought I was going to end up an old spinster, with my cats and fur coats.”
“There's no such thing as failure if you just try.”

Source : John Osborne (1958). “Three Plays”
“People are lonely in this world for lots of different reasons. Some people have something in their disposition. Maybe they were born too mean, or maybe they were born too tender. But most people are brought to where they are by circumstance, by calamity or a broken heart or something else happening in their lives that wasn't anything they planned on. People are lonely in this world for lots of different reasons. The one thing that I do know is, it doesn't matter what any one of them tell you -- nobody wants to be alone.”
“We are clearcutting virgin forests around the world, and 95 percent of species in the clearcut zone have never been studied. So we clearcut a part of the virgin forest and now part of our ecosystem has been wiped out. Some of it may grow back, and some of it won't.”

Source : Source: www.edgemagazine.net
“It is seldom that we find out how great are our resources until we are thrown upon them.”

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