"As a member of the Protestant British squirearchy ruling Ireland, he was touchy about his Irish origins. When in later life an enthusiastic Gael commended him as a famous Irishman, he replied "A man can be born in a stable, and yet not be an animal."

-- Duke of Wellington

#Animal Quotes #Men Quotes #Born Quotes

“When I went to Scotland to do another movie, I would sing with a coach up there and then when I went to New York I sang with a coach over there-I mean I've now sung with coaches in LA, New York, London, Glasgow, St Louis and Rio de Janeiro!”
“When you're sure of what you're looking at, look harder.”

Source : Richard Powers (2010). “Generosity”, p.8, Atlantic Books Ltd
“[in the true mad north] of introspection, where 'falcons of the inner eye' dive and die, glimpsing in their dying fall, all life's memory of existence.”
“Who shot him? I asked. The grey man scratched the back of his neck and said: Somebody with a gun.”

Source : Dashiell Hammett (2007). “Vintage Hammett”, p.75, Vintage
“The great man is too often all of a piece; it is the little man that is a bundle of contradictory elements. He is inexhaustible. You never come to the end of the surprises he has in store for you.”
“Help, love, forgive, and create beauty.”
“Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.”
“Our memory fragments don't have any coherence until they're imagined in words. Time is a property of language, of syntax, and tense.”

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