Eldon Galuppo

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Eldon’s Quotes

“What is more dangerous than to become a poet? which is, as some say, an incurable and infectious disease.”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote

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“Jane turned toward the source, following the shift in
energy like a current. At the top of the stone steps stood
a man in light summer clothes: a pale blue shirt, neatly
pressed trousers, polished loafers. He looked every inch
the old-money aristocrat. Relaxed posture. Clean-shaven
face. But no one smiled.”
― D.L. Maddox, Secrets

tags: climatic, emotionally-charged, humour, low-self-esteem, profound, relationships, sorrow, tense, toxic, unpredictable

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“You'll get back to where you came from.”
― William Golding, Lord of the Flies

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“For every letter of creditors, write fifty lines on an extraterrestrial subject and you'll be saved.”
― Charles Baudelaire, My Heart Laid Bare: Intimate diaries with 30 illustrations

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“Captain Gribble was making progress on his pony with his eleven mules. May 6th We reached Shaduzup about 11 a.m. All morning the sky was full of aeroplanes as they passed to and fro from a northern aerodrome in Burma, but I had only just reached the camp when I heard the crump, crump and crump of bombs falling in the direction of Myitkyina …”
― Elizabeth Tebby Germaine, EXTRAORDINARY TRUE STORIES OF SURVIVAL IN BURMA WW2: tens of thousands fled to India from the Japanese Invasion in 1942

tags: invest, wwii

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