"This is every writer's nightmare--the sudden breakdown of meaning in the language that sustains and supports us..."

-- Dan Simmons

#Support Quotes #Language Quotes #Nightmare Quotes

“Perhaps the street photographer has been replaced by the security camera.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Passion is all very well, but it wouldn't do to spill the tea.”

Source : Helen Simonson (2010). “Major Pettigrew's Last Stand”, p.347, A&C Black
“I led a sheltered life. I didn't know how to book a flight.”

Source : Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Commitment is doing the thing you said you were going to do long after the mood you said it in has left you.”
“We've got to reinvest in space travel. Â We should haveÂ never left the moon.”
“Armaments do not, generally speaking, cause wars. This notion, the logical crux of all arguments in favor of disarmament, turns the causal relationship upside down. Actually, it is wars, or conflicts threatening war, that cause armaments, not the reverse.”

Source : James Burnham (1967). “The War We are in: The Last Decade and the Next”, New Rochelle, N.Y. : Arlington House
“I leave comparisons to history, claiming only that I have acted in every instance from a conscientious desire to do what was right, constitutional, within the law, and for the very best interests of the whole people. Failures have been errors of judgment, not of intent.”
“Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard Are sweeter: therefore, ye soft pipes, play on; Not to the sensual ear, but, more endear'd, Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone. Fair youth, beneath the trees, thou canst not leave Thy song, nor ever can those trees be bare; Bold Lover, never, never canst thou kiss, Though winning near the goal yet, do not grieve; She cannot fade, though thou hast not thy bliss, For ever wilt thou love, and she be fair!”

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