"But re-reading Voss also demonstrates again that although White wasn't 'a nice man', and indeed wasâ€”perhaps rightlyâ€”scathingly dismissive of my and other Australian writers' work and origins unless they were his friends, he was a genius, and Voss one of the finest works of the modernist era and of the past century."

-- Thomas Keneally

#Nice Quotes #Reading Quotes #Past Quotes

“The bond was so strange at times. Jill was jealous on Adrian's behalf.”
“The voice I had accepted as Divine Guidance was actually the voice of my ego leading me right into destruction.”
“There had to be a hysteria and a fear sent through America in order to get increased war budgets.”
“Too bad people can't always be playing music, maybe then there wouldn't be any more wars.”
“If mass media, social isolation in the suburbs, alienating workplaces and long car commutes create a bunker mentality, the Internet does the opposite.”
“Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts or happenings. It consist mainly of the storm of thoughts that is forever flowing through one's head.”
“I don't want to live in a world where Donald Trump is the President. He is not doing anything in Baltimore, but I am dedicated to using whatever platform I have to make sure that he is not the President. This is not simply a disagreement about ideas. It's a disagreement about values, and the values that he espouses are values of bigotry and hate, and that isn't OK.”
“Intensely selfish people are always very decided as to what they wish. They do not waste their energies in considering the good of others.”

Source : Ouida (2016). “Wisdom, Wit and Pathos of Ouida”, p.408, Ouida

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