"Our ancestors are totally essential to our every waking moment, although most of us don't even have the faintest idea about their lives, their trials, their hardships or challenges."

-- Annie Lennox

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“Love is a serious mental disease.”
“Public reformers had need first practice on their own hearts that which they purpose to try on others.”
“I don't like meeting bands that I like, because in the slight case that they might not be cool, it kind of ruins it for me.”
“You don't want to stand too close to a robot arm; it can turn your head to mush.”
“But worse things were about to be found in the bedroom: on the jewellerâ€™s wifeâ€™s ottoman, in a casual pose, sprawled a third party- namely, a black cat of uncanny size, with a glass of vodka in one paw and a fork, on which he had managed to spear a pickled mushroom, in the other. , The Master and Magarita”
“You don't understand how much light you have until the lights go out.”
“Jesus was the only One that ever raised the dead," The Misfit continued, "and He shouldn't have done it. He shown everything off balance. If He did what He said, then it's nothing for you to do but throw away everything and follow Him, and if He didn't, then it's nothing for you to do but enjoy the few minutes you got left the best way you can by killing somebody or burning down his house or doing some other meanness to him. No pleasure but meanness," he said and his voice had become almost a snarl.”
“She would have liked to sit upon a rock and listen to words, not of any man, but detached, mysterious, poetic words that she alone would interpret through some sense inherited from sleep.”

Source : Patrick White (2011). “Voss”, p.63, Random House

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