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"Slow going. about one in every four essays is well written; the rest read like pet coffee house theory or an outline of a good idea which never came to full being and lacks research.." — Nov 08, 2013 06:09PM
"Slow going. about one in every four essays is well written; the rest read like pet coffee house theory or an outline of a good idea which never came to full being and lacks research.." — Nov 08, 2013 06:09PM
“We were fond together because of the sweep of open places, the taste of wide winds, the sunlight, and the hopes in which we worked. The morning freshness of the world-to-be intoxicated us. We were wrought up with ideas inexpressible and vaporous, but to be fought for. We lived many lives in those whirling campaigns, never sparing ourselves: yet when we achieved and the new world dawned, the old men came out again and took our victory to remake in the likeness of the former world they knew. Youth could win, but had not learned to keep, and was pitiably weak against age. We stammered that we had worked for a new heaven and a new earth, and they thanked us kindly and made their peace.”
― Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph
― Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph
“He was old and wise, which meant tired and disappointed...”
― Seven Pillars of Wisdom
― Seven Pillars of Wisdom
“People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them.”
― Mrs. Warren's Profession
― Mrs. Warren's Profession
“You wonder what I am doing? Well, so do I, in truth. Days seem to dawn, suns to shine, evenings to follow, and then I sleep. What I have done, what I am doing, what I am going to do, puzzle and bewilder me. Have you ever been a leaf and fallen from your tree in autumn and been really puzzled about it? That’s the feeling.
(T.E. Lawrence to artist Eric Kennington, May 1935 )”
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(T.E. Lawrence to artist Eric Kennington, May 1935 )”
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