"My ideas had been taking a socialistic shape for many years; but they were lacking in definite outline."

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Source : Edward Carpenter (1916). “My days and dreams: being autobiographical notes”

Edward Carpenter

#Years Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Shapes Quotes

“We heard recently the touching story of a young flier who was killed in action. Before he died, he had time to scrawl only a few words as a brief final message to his parents back home. The note read: "Dear Mom and Pop; I had time to say my prayers. Jack."”
“It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself.”
“Everything I experience influences everything I do.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“A wife who lets herself go and is not sexually available to her husband in the ways that the Song of Songs is so frank about is not responsible for her husband's sin, but she may not be helping him either.”
“I know politics; I know the media.”

Source : "Meet France's new power couple" by Angelique Chrisafis, www.theguardian.com. May 14, 2012.
“Those who are born of parents broken with old age, or of such as are not yet ripe or are too young, or of drunkards, soft or effeminate men, want a great and liberal ingenuity or wit.”

Source : "Psychological problems in mental deficiency" by Seymour B. Sarason, p. 211, 1969.
“I have no problem being with people of different nationalities.”
“And I do think that great fiction, even when it's comedic, has an urgency or an inevitability to it, a sense that the writer absolutely had to write this particular story in this way.”

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