"Better to love amiss than nothing to have loved."

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Source : George Crabbe, John Crabbe (1834). “The poetical works of the Rev. George Crabbe: in eight volumes”, p.98

George Crabbe

“Collage has been one of the most relevant forms of art making. It's resonant because it is made of the stuff that we see every day. It's familiar. It reflects our reality.”
“Short stories demand a certain awareness of one's own intentions, a certain narrowing of the focus.”
“A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.”
“We read books, talked books, argued over books and became dearer and dearer to one another.”

Source : Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows (2009). “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society”, p.45, A&C Black
“Many of the religious apologists out there are not stupid people, they are often brilliant. People working in the field of theology and philosophy smart people everywhere. What they are those religious apologists are smart poeple who can build these amazingly intricate rationalizations for whatever weird practice they favor. Whether it's ritual cannibalism, or praying to spirits, or treating women as chattel. And they always building this on terrible shaky foundation of false premises.”
“We must not offer people a system of redemption, a set of insights and principles. We offer people a Redeemer.”
“But no customer is going to buy based on their existing wage structure.”
“Radar is too long in the tooth for fine detail.”

Source : Peter Watts (2014). “Firefall”, p.34, Head of Zeus

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