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“A sailor called Christopher followed his mistake and those who come later have added theirs. Now he's dead, and as some say of the dead, safe and sound in the legacy of the grave. 'Tis a childish saying, for they be yet present with the living. (211)”
― In the Castle of My Skin
― In the Castle of My Skin
“Madame, it is always a mistake to know an author. (p.215)”
― Death in the Afternoon
― Death in the Afternoon
“Wagner: Yet elocution makes the orator;
I'm far behind, I feel it more and more.
Faust: Seek thou an honest retribution!
Be thou no motley, jingling fool!
It needs but little elocution
To speak good sense by reason's rule.
It ye've a message to deliver,
Need ye for words be hunting ever?”
― Faust
I'm far behind, I feel it more and more.
Faust: Seek thou an honest retribution!
Be thou no motley, jingling fool!
It needs but little elocution
To speak good sense by reason's rule.
It ye've a message to deliver,
Need ye for words be hunting ever?”
― Faust
“Don’t tell me about voters. Those people are like ants. All they ever do is live for their work and pay tax for us politicians to buy new shoes that we wear to trample on them.”
― For you I’d steal a goat
― For you I’d steal a goat
“While the Growing went on, this god of their market-place was their true god, their familiar and spirit-control. They did not know that they were his helplessly obedient slaves, nor could they ever hope to realize their serfdom (as the first step to becoming free men) until they should make the strange and hard discovery that matter should serve man’s spirit. (p.211)”
― The Magnificent Ambersons
― The Magnificent Ambersons
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