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Just in case you ever foolishly forget — I'm never not thinking of you.
Forget it. Never explain — never apologize. You can either write posthumously or you can't.
Threatened men live long. — Rudyard Kipling, Puck of Pook's Hill
The gods do not visit you to remind you what you know already. — Mary Stewart
Used every man according to his capacity. — Mary Stewart, The Crystal Cave
It shocked his sense of dramatic economy that they should have to resort to violence when the same result could have bee — Hope Mirrlees, Lud-in-the-Mist
So fine a medicine is the will to action. — Hope Mirrlees, Lud-in-the-Mist
Between my finger and my thumb The squat pen rests — snug as a gun.
Our passing interrupted the road crossing, and the crowd bunched on both sides waited for us to go by as we all waited f — Dan Davin, Breathing Spaces
A bad conscience makes a very good ghost. — Hope Mirrlees, Lud-in-the-Mist
There had always been something rather brutal about (..._) common sense. — Hope Mirrlees, Lud-in-the-Mist
But these are sad times, the 'prentices wanting to be masters, and every little tradesman wanting to be a Senator, and e — Hope Mirrlees, Lud-in-the-Mist
Let mental suffering be intense enough, and it becomes a sort of carminative. — Hope Mirrlees, Lud-in-the-Mist
Sentimentality is a quality that rarely has the slightest influence on action. — Hope Mirrlees, Lud-in-the-Mist
Mad folks are often as dangerous as bad ones. — Hope Mirrlees, Lud-in-the-Mist
But there is no energy unless there is a tension of opposites — hence it is necessary to discover the opposite to the attitude of the conscious mind.
I had trouble listening to adults who didn't really mean anything that they said — it was as if their language poured into my ears only to drain right out a little spigot in the back of my head.
To become greater in anything you can do, prepare to be a rejecter of everything that you cannot do. Neglect whatever ac — Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes
I am stone and steel of your sleeping numbers — I remember all you forget.I will die as many timesas you make me over again.
Even if this spring the dappled leaves should shelter our minds from the moon's pale echo we would still remember how on — Dan Davin