"There were some days that deserved to be drowned at birth and everyone sent back to bed with a hot brandy, a box of chocolates and a warm, energetic companion. Today was without question one of those days."

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Source : Diana Pharaoh Francis (2014). “Trace of Magic”, p.265, Bell Bridge Books

Diana Pharaoh Francis

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“The first 10 years of my professional life had only to do with running away from my father. He was a wonderful cabinet-maker, and me being the eldest son, I had to take over his shop, his profession and so on and so on. I tried to escape by going to art school and then going on to industrial design and then interior design.”
“Beware of men bearing flowers.”
“Civil libertarian activists are found overwhelmingly on the left. Their right-wing brethren have been concerned with issues more important than civil rights, voting rights, abuses by police and the military, and the subordination of politics to religion - issues like the campaign to expand human freedom by turning highways over to toll-extracting private corporations and the crusade to funnel money from Social Security to Wall Street brokerage firms.”

Source : Source: blogs.chicagotribune.com
“Australians are decent people with the right instincts and they wish everybody well; but if all is not well, it is none of their business and they will not lose too much sleep over it. The shrug of the shoulders has become - only temporarily, I daresay - the national gesture of Australia.”
“T is liberty crowns Britannia's Isle, And makes her barren rocks and her bleak mountains smile.”
“I know a lot of people didn't expect our relationship to last - but we've just celebrated our two months' anniversary.”
“I'm a West Indian mum and West Indian mums will go to the wall for their children.”

Source : "Diane Abbott: I sent my son to private school so he wouldn't end up in a gang". www.mirror.co.uk. June 21, 2010.
“When the great Kepler bad at length discovered the harmonic laws that regulate the motions of the heavenly bodies, he exclaimed: "Whether my discoveries will be read by posterity or by my contemporaries is a matter that concerns them more than me. I may well be contented to wait one century for a reader, when God Himself, during so many thousand years, has waited for an observer like myself.”

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