"It's an old saying that one still has to know something, despite everything."

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Source : Halldór Laxness (2005). “Under the Glacier”, Vintage Books

HalldÃ³r Laxness

#Old Saying Quotes #Stills Quotes

“Discord oft in music makes the sweeter lay.”
“After playing Ballybunion for the first time, a man would think that the game of golf originated here.”
“As long as we are a single-planet species, we are vulnerable to extinction by a planetwide catastrophe, natural or self-induced. Once we become a multiplanet species, our chances to live long and prosper will take a huge leap skyward.”
“One thing I can say about the Motown acts is that we were a family. That's not a myth”
“There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we are and what this life is for.”
“We've got a good inspection system in Arizona managing products that come from other parts of the county that could carry insects that could become problematic.”
“Free men and women... can think across time, viewing their own lives, inclusive of past, present, and future, as architectural wholes, static in mental space. They can therefore see, as others cannot, the cracks and buttresses of repeated action, the points of stress, the established framework. They are not perfect; but they are less imperfect than we by a full dimension of being.”

Source : Robert Grudin (1997). “Time and the Art of Living”, p.5, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I do not share the half-in, half-out attitude to the EU of some in Britain. Britain's place is in Europe.”

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