Weekend Quote
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Weekend Quote: Prison
At such times I felt something was drawing me away, and I kept thinking that if I walked straight on, far, far away and reached that line where sky and earth meet, there I should find the key to the mystery, there I should see a new life a thousand times richer and more turbulent Continue reading
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Weekend Quote: The Law
“The law – ’tis bad to have it, but, I sometimes think, it is worse to be entirely without it.” – James Fenimore Cooper, The Prairie J. F. Cooper’s The Prairie (1827) is the last book in the Leatherstocking series, of which his more famous The Last of the Mohicans is also part. The beauty Continue reading
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Weekend Quote: Bantering
“It is all very well, in these changing times, to adapt one’s work to take in duties not traditionally within one’s realm; but bantering is of another dimension altogether. For one thing, how would one know for sure that at any given moment a response of the bantering sort is truly what is expected? One Continue reading
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Weekend Quote: Futility
“And if he finally burst through the outermost door—but that can never, never happen—the royal capital city, the centre of the world, is still there in front of him, piled high and full of sediment.” – Kafka, ‘An Imperial Message’ This is part of a much longer paragraph about futility. What I love about this Continue reading
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