‘There where we find the deepest grief, there shall we begin the cure.’
‘The Knight’s Tale’ from The Canterbury Tales – Geoffrey Chaucer
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‘Though the ostensible aim of the war was to protect the Turks in the Danube provinces from the invading Russians, the real object, frankly avowed in the Press, was to destroy Sebastopol and end Russian naval power in the Mediterranean.’
The Reason Why – Behind the Scenes at the Charge of The Light Brigade – Cecil Woodham Smith
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‘Each step and each new day would be different from any that had ever been because we would be together.’
Oasis Nine – (short story from Young Man on a Bicycle and other stories) – Victor Canning
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‘Before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.’
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‘No easy flowery path leads to any place worth arriving at.’
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‘Good things will come again, and we’ll have whisky galore.’
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‘Do you know what happens to people who set about learning to skate with a determination to get no falls? They fall as often as the rest of us, and they cannot skate in the end.’
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‘She was thinking only that “some other time” had a delightful sound; it seemed to spread itself over the future.’
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‘The Rat Race’ means a race where, no matter how fast you run, you don’t get anywhere. I felt bad about the title because, I thought, it wasn’t a rat race at all, it was a People Race, and no sensible rats would ever do anything so foolish,’
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‘The thing is – fear can’t hurt you any more than a dream.’
Things In My Head 