"There they stand, the innumerable stars, shining in order like a living hymn, written in light."

-- Nathaniel Parker Willis

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“Men are pigs. I really have every sympathy for women that they actually have to choose one of these arrogant, stupid morons to settle down with and marry.”
“In principle, any abstraction of the object is allowed which has a sufficiently strong creative power behind it.”
“Nothing remains static in war or military weapons, and it is consequently often dangerous to rely on courses suggested by apparent similarities in the past.”
“More than any other drummer, Ringo Starr changed my life. The impact and memory of that band on Ed Sullivan Show in 1964 will never leave me. I can still see Ringo in the back moving that beat with his whole body, his right hand swinging off his sock cymbal while his left hand pounds the snare. He was fantastic, but I think what got to me the most was his smile. I knew he was having the time of his life.”
“It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.”

Source : Katherine Mansfield, Margaret Scott (1997). “The Katherine Mansfield notebooks”
“The [Booker] prize was actually responsible in many ways for my political activism. I won this thing and I was suddenly the darling of the new emerging Indian middle class â€“ they needed a princess. They had the wrong woman. I had this light shining on me at the time, and I knew that I had the stage to say something about what was happening in my country. What is exciting about what I have done since is that writing has become a weapon, some kind of ammunition.”
“I don't care too much for thinking about the past. The truth is just another story. You can remember it any way you want; it's never gonna be the same twice.”
“Angels and ministers of grace defend us.”

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