"What is Time... That you speak of it so subserviently? Are we to be the slaves of the sun, that second-hand, overrated knob of gilt, or of his sister, that fatuous circle of silver paper? A curse upon their ridiculous dictatorship!"

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Source : Mervyn Peake (2007). “Titus Groan”, p.239, The Overlook Press

Mervyn Peake

#Time Quotes #Hands Quotes #Circles Quotes

“Practically speaking, your religion is the story you tell about your life.”
“That is what I define as a novel: something that has a beginning, a middle and an end, with characters and a plot that sustain interest from the first sentence to the last. But that is not what I do at all.”
“Computers will never take the place of books. You can't stand on a floppy disk to reach a high shelf.”
“Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.”
“But I now entered on my fifteenth year - a sad epoch in the life of a slave girl. My master began to whisper foul words in my ear. Young as I was, I could not remain ignorant of their import”

Source : Harriet Ann Jacobs (2006). “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl - Literary Touchstone Classic”, p.37, Prestwick House Inc
“It is not the reading of many books which is necessary to make a man wise or good; but well reading of a few.”
“When you know and feel the miracle that you are, you become certain that nothing is impossible for you.”
“To me, it's not work. When I draw and I write, I find it relaxing. It's not like 9-to-5, where a man goes to a job and he isn't really interested in the job. Luckily, I get paid for doing what I'd do for nothing.”

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