"I'm a Communist by day and a Catholic as soon as it gets dark."

--

Brendan Behan

#Dark Quotes #Catholic Quotes #Communist Quotes

“Which I wish to remark-- And my language is plain,-- That for ways that are dark And for tricks that are vain, The heathen Chinee is peculiar.”
“To be thrown upon one's own resources, is to be cast in the very lap of fortune.”
“In my games I have sometimes found a combination intuitively simply feeling that it must be there. Yet I was not able to translate my thought processes into normal human language.”
“Because a fact seems strange to you, you conclude that it is not one. ... All science, however, commences by being strange. Science is successive. It goes from one wonder to another. It mounts by a ladder. The science of to-day would seem extravagant to the science of a former time. Ptolemy would believe Newton mad.”
“I couldn't work my way into being a good-looking guy.”

Source : "The unknown heart-throb". www.theguardian.com. January 12, 2000.
“The inspiration for the book came after a visitation from a spiritual being that materialized before me on two consecutive nights. Although I crumpled into unconsciousness at the outset of each encounter and consciously remembered hearing only an initial word or two from the entity, I awakened on the dawn after the second visit with the ideas for The Divine Fire bubbling in my brain.”
“He likes driving very fast on the wrong side of the road," said Sarah. "Which I can completely understand.”

Source : Hilary McKay (2003). “Saffy's Angel”, Margaret K. McElderry Books
“Art is for everybody.”

Source : "Coach Sends a Message with Keith Haring Tribute Collection" by Sam Reed, www.hollywoodreporter.com. September 12, 2017.

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