"I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity. Yet these elegies are to this generation in no sense conciliatory. They may be to the next. All a poet can do today is warn. That is why the true Poets must be truthful."

-- Wilfred Owen

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“Racing is a very selfish, self-centred, self-glorifying thing. My wife's life for 14 years was centered around me. It was all about me. It was all for my ego.”
“Marilyn Monroe was supposedly a size 16, which is probably why I love her style; it suits me better.”
“I think we'll all keep pushing each other, which is a great thing.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“You can't start putting difficult clothes on a person. They're actors: they have to move, they have to feel real.”
“My intellect is a little way upon the wrong side of that narrow boundary-line between sanity and insanity.”

Source : Mary Elizabeth Braddon (2009). “Lady Audley's Secret”, p.618, The Floating Press
“When I read biographies, I'm only interested in the first few chapters. I'm not interested in when people become successful. I'm interested in what made them successful.”
“A cockle-fish may as soon crowd the ocean into its narrow shell, as vain man ever comprehend the decrees of God!”

Source : William Beveridge (1847). “Ecclesia Anglicana Ecclesia Catholica: Or, The Doctrine of the Church of England Consonant to Scripture, Reason, and Fathers : in a Discourse Upon the Thirty Nine Articles Agreed Upon in the Convocation Held at London MDLXII”, p.344
“I often wish that folks would use Twitter for something more than sharing quotes”

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