F.S. Flint Quotes
My own unryhmed cadences, and those of other writers are a reversion to the real English tradition of Cynewulf.
F.S. Flint
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I love Rag & Bone, Dior, and Valentino; I like feminine, sexy things. Dolce & Gabbana and Chanel, too.
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My parents didn't agree with what was going on, you know, with the communists coming in, Fidel Castro. I didn't see the reason why I needed to go back there and be a part of that exhibition.
Rafael Palmeiro
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I kind of crave loneliness.
Sam Heughan
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I don't even know how to define myself. I'm a person who writes. It's something I enjoy, and hopefully people enjoy it as well.
Macaulay Culkin
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There were sometimes from forty to sixty English machines, but unfortunately the Germans were often in the minority. With them quality was more important than quantity.
Manfred von Richthofen
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We must think differently, look at things in a different way. Peace requires a world of new concepts, new definitions.
Yitzhak Rabin
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In the end, in England, when you want to find out how people are feeling, you always go to the pubs.
Martha Gellhorn
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If my twelve-year-old self, of whom I had grown rather fond, thinking about him, were to reproach me: 'Why have you grown up such a dull dog, when I gave you such a good start? Why have you spent your time in dusty libraries, catologuing other people's books instead of writing your own? What had become of the Ram, the Bull and the Lion, the example I gave you to emulate? Where above all is the Virgin, with her shining face and curling tresses, whom I entrusted to you'- what should I say?
I should have an answer ready. 'Well, it was you who let me down, and I will tell you how. You flew too near to the sun, and you were scorched. This cindery creature is what you made me.'
To which he might reply: 'But you have had half a century to get over it! Half a century, half the twentieth century, that glorious epoch, that golden age that I bequeathed to you!'
'Has the twentieth century,' I should ask, 'done so much better than I have? When you leave this room, which I admit is dull and cheerless, and take the last bus to your home in the past, if you haven't missed it - ask yourself whether you found everything so radiant as you imagined it. Ask yourself whether it has fulfilled your hopes. You were vanquished, Colston, you were vanquished, and so was your century, your precious century that you hoped so much of.
Leslie Poles Hartley
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Why do people avoid being alone? Because only few are in good company when left with themselves.
Carlo Dossi
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It would be foolish to despise tradition. But with our growing self-consciousness and increasing intelligence we must begin to control tradition and assume a critical attitude toward it, if human relations are ever to change for the better.
Albert Einstein
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There's keen delight in what we have:
The rattle of pebbles on the shore
Under the receding wave.
William Butler Yeats
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My own unryhmed cadences, and those of other writers are a reversion to the real English tradition of Cynewulf.
F.S. Flint
