"Just for a while": Death's opening chat-up line in His great seduction, before he drugged you with soporific comforts, distracted you with minor luxuries and ensnared you with long-term payment plans. Join the Rat Race "just for a while." Concentrate on your career "just for a while." Move in with your girlfriend "just for a while." Find a bigger place, out in the burbs "just for a while." Lie down in that wooden box "just for a while."

-- Christopher Brookmyre

#Girlfriend Quotes #Lying Quotes #Moving Quotes

“If the Barbarians are destroyed, who will we then be able to blame for the bad things?”
“I am neither I nor Other, both I and other...”
“I came to poetry because I felt I couldn't live properly in the real world.”
“I was going to be lynched. I had to go into hiding in the mountains for two weeks.”

Source : "How star of the stage Patrick McGoohan became a Prisoner of his own success after switching to the screen" by Marcus Dunk, www.dailymail.co.uk. January 15, 2009.
“When my husband of almost 20 years canâ€™t take his eyes off me? Thatâ€™s amazing,”
“The animate earth - this moody terrain that we experience differently in anger and in joy, in grief and in love - is both the soil in which all our sciences are rooted and the rich humus into which their results ultimately return, whether as nutrients or as poisons. Our spontaneous experience of the world, charged with subjective, emotional, and intuitive content, remains the vital and dark ground of all our objectivity”
“I was very nervous at the beginning of Hotel du Nord.”
“I think it's always good for the author to stay a good cattle prod's distance from the actual moviemaking.”

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