‘You will soon be happy, but only if you do not believe in appearances.’
-Beauty and the Beast – World Of Fairy Tales
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Quote Of The Week
‘The burden of a thinking person is that they think too much. My mind scents the danger of desiring and expecting something fantastic, something that could not possibly happen actually, and of being badly disillusioned.’
–Maggie Joy Blunt from ‘Our Hidden Lives. The Everyday Diaries Of A Forgotten Britain 1945-1948′ by Simon Garfield.
Quote Of The Week
‘We are the music makers. And we are the dreamers of dreams’.
Quote Of The Week
‘If I could not be persuaded into doing what I thought wrong, I never will be tricked into it.’
Quote Of The Week
‘Fight for solidarity between all people. Resist evil. Invent paths of reconciliation.’
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‘When you’re out of your depth, keep your gob shut and your ears open.’
-Lancashire Adage
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‘We three kings of Leicester Square
Selling ladies underwear
No elastic
Quite fantastic
Penny a pound a pair’.
The Penguin Book Of Naughty Postcards – Georgina Howell
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‘Lust is a poor, weak, whimpering, whispering thing compared with that richness and energy of desire which will arise when lust has been killed.’
from ‘The Great Divorce‘ – C.S Lewis
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‘We obey the landowners creed. If it’s attractive, you shoot it, if it’s ugly, you marry it.’
from Darkest Day – Christopher Fowler
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‘At the end of 1968 there were a lot of great electric guitar players in the room- a lot of chances to get discouraged and put your guitar down. But that kind of reaction is the ego talking. Whether your reaction is to stick out your chest, or to run and hide-superiority or instant inferiority-either one is full of shit. You’re supposed to be you.’
–Carlos Santana, from his autobiography, ‘The Universal Tone‘
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