"Life for delays and doubts no time does give, None ever yet made haste enough to live."

-- Abraham Cowley

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“I donâ€™t like to badmouth people. But Iâ€™m the head of a monarchy that began in the ninth century, and Iâ€™m apparently more modern than Chris Christie.Â Look, I know he has to appeal to the crazy right-wingers in his party, but the fact is, heâ€™s not as forward-thinking as an eighty-seven-year-old lady who wears a crown on her head. Itâ€™s pathetic.”
“London goes beyond any boundary or convention.It contains every wish or word ever spoken, every action or gesture ever made, every harsh or noble statement ever expressed. It is illimitable. It is Infinite London.”

Source : "London: The Biography". Book by Peter Ackroyd, 2000.
“Ages of faith and of unbelief are always said to mark the course of history.”
“Physical sickness we usually defy. Soul sickness we often resign ourselves to.”

Source : Mark Buchanan (2007). “The Rest of God: Restoring Your Soul by Restoring Sabbath”, p.158, Thomas Nelson Inc
“Treat your business relationships like friendships (or potential friendships). Formality puts up walls, and walls don't foster good business relationships. No one is loyal to a wall... except the one in China.”
“Socially and politically, we seem to be living in dire times, worse times than in the past. But there were far worse horrors in our past. The writer's role is to be a truth sayer. I sincerely believe that each society, each country lives by a particular fantasy vision, a fantasy vision of itself. The truth of how they live is hardly ever faced.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Colour, as the strange and magnificent expression of the inscrutable spectrum of Eternity, is beautiful and important to me as a painter; I use it to enrich the canvas and to probe more deeply into the object. Colour also decided, to a certain extent, my spiritual outlook, but it is subordinated to life, and above all, to the treatment of form. Too much emphasis on colour at the expense of form and space would make a double manifestation of itself on the canvas, and this would verge on craft work.”
“The denial of death is openly acknowledged as a significant trait of our culture. The tears of the bereaved have become comparable to the excretions of the diseased”

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