"That's how vile i am! I live Ireland, I breathe Ireland, and Christ how I loathe it, I wish I were a bloody Scot, that's how bloody awful it is being Irish!"

-- Iris Murdoch

#Wish Quotes #Awful Quotes #Breathe Quotes

“When everyone is part of the people's congress, what need is there for an opposition? Opposition to what? You oppose a government! If there is no government, and the people govern themselves on their own, what are they going to oppose? Something that isn't there?”
“Angus Deaton has written a wonderful book, The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality. . . . Deaton's book is a magisterial overview of health, income, and wealth from the industrial revolution to the present, taking in countries poor and rich. Not just jargon-free but equation-free, the book is written with a beautifully lucid style. . . . [P]owerfully argued and convincing.”
“I just want to be the best Carly Rae I can be.”
“I knew at quite a young age that I had an issue with drinking.”

Source : "Depeche Mode: 'We're dysfunctional. Maybe that's what makes us tick'". Interview with Dorian Lynskey, www.theguardian.com. March 28, 2013.
“I'm still talking about some heavy issues, but it feels a lot happier to me.”
“The bliss of the Creator forever permeates all of creation, and it is only in the forgetting that misery exists.”
“It is not that I belong to the past, but the past that belongs to me.”

Source : Mary Antin (2013). “The Promised Land”, p.251, Courier Corporation
“A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it.”

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