"The hungry and the homeless don't care about liberty any more than they care about cultural heritage. To pretend that they do care is cant."

-- E. M. Forster

#Liberty Quotes #Heritage Quotes #Care Quotes

“I had never passed a single school exam, and clearly never would.”
“Some men have a silly theory about beautiful women - that somewhere along the line they'll turn into a monster. That movie gave them a chance to watch it happen.”
“No matter how often I think I can't stand it anymore, I always do. There is no alternative. I don't fall, I don't foam at the mouth, faint, collapse or die. It's the same for all of us. You can't get out of the inside of your own head. Something keeps you going. Something always does.”

Source : Janice Galloway (1989). “The Trick is to Keep Breathing: A Novel”
“I know that at one time, the Arctic was the tropics. And I guess I wonder what caused that? Was it dinosaur farts? I don’t know.”

Source : "Creeps, bums and a foot in the mouth", www.macleans.ca. March 29, 2013.
“The story of life is quicker then the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye.”
“Why is it I'm always so quick to believe that people are thinking...believing the worst about me?”

Source : Bette Greene (1988). “Morning is a long time coming”, Starfire
“On whether Blurred Lines' video is sexist: I don't. I really appreciate the people who watch out for that stuff, and I'm sensitive to those sort of things. On the surface level, the naked women dancing, I understand that can be perceived that way. But we're directed to have a sort of confidence, a sarcastic attitude about the whole situation.”
“the whistle of the old steam trains ... could conjure up visions of bleak distances with one solitary wail.”

Source : M. C. Beaton (2016). “Introducing Hamish Macbeth: Mysteries #1-3: Death of a Gossip, Death of a Cad, and Death of an Outsider Omnibus”, p.293, Hachette UK

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