Esdaile

“Where, I wonder, should I have been over the long years across the world without the spasmodic, always unexpected, and totally reliable friendship of companions like Donald Wise, and Ralph Izzard, and Patrick O'Donovan, and David Holden, and Louis Heren, and Sam White, and Richard Scott, and René MacColl, and Stanley Uys, and Ted Levite, and David Walker, and Tim Baistow, and Stanley Burch, and a score more of their kind, at any moment liable to appear through the swing-doors of anywhere between Tuscaloosa and Tonkin and reduce chaos to the healing anodyne of a glass and the shared misfortunes of existence.
(On journalism in "Point of Departure" page 80)”
― James Cameron

“A man's most vivid emotional and sensuous experience is inevitably bound up with the language that he actually speaks. (New Bearings in English Poetry)”
― F R Leavis

“La diferencia estriba quizá en que el hombre de fuertes pasiones las vive, mientras que el de débiles pasiones es vivido por ellas.
Translated into English-The difference is perhaps based on the fact that the man of strong passions lives them out, whereas the man of weak passions has them lived out for him.”
― Madariaga

“Il y a autre chose que le détachement de la vie et l'éloignement de toi, il y a l'orgueil...Je ne veux pas renier, je ne veux pas me cacher, je ne veux pas aller en Allemagne, et je ne veux pas être touché par des pattes sales.”
― Drieu La Rochelle