"There's no leaving Edinburgh, No shifting it around: it stays with you, always."

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Alan Bold

#Leaving Quotes #Edinburgh Quotes #Shifting Quotes

“The Brexiteers promised their supporters wonderful things, almost none of which can ever come true. The billions that London transfers to Brussels will most certainly not land in the budget of the country's National Health Service. Brexit is going to be very bitter for many of its supporters.”
“Sometimes I smoked opium. And I also took LSD - for a while, quite a lot of LSD, in fact. But I never had any bad experiences. I stopped in 1985. I'd had enough, and I don't miss it, either.”
“How shall I speak of Doom, and ours in special, But as of something altogether common?”

Source : Donald Justice (2009). “Collected Poems”, p.25, Knopf
“I never think about Wall Street - why should I - but to go down there so often while filming 'Working Girl,' to become acquainted with this whole different world, and to find out what goes on behind the scenes, is so interesting. There's so much of the city that you don't really bother to investigate. Ahh... New York.”
“The magnificent cause of being, The imagination, the one reality In this imagined world ...”
“Many good poets are really essayists who write very short essays.”
“I don't go and ask my friends for favours. They are real, true, incredible amazing human beings with good hearts. They have evolved as human beings. I have evolved as a human being and I have let this wall down that I had.”
“A man is a little thing while he works by and for himself; but when he gives voice to the rules of love and justice, he is godlike....”

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