Alasdair Gray Quotes
Glasgow is still full of churches built in the last century. Half of them have been turned into warehouses.
Quotes to Explore
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Oft expectation fails, and most oft there where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest, and despair most fits.
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Just as a stream flows smoothly on as long as it encounters no obstruction, so the nature of man and animal is such that we never really notice or become conscious of what is agreeable to our will; if we are to notice something, our will has to have been thwarted, has to have experienced a shock of some kind.
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We're poor little lambs who've lost our way, Baa! Baa! Baa! We're little black sheep who've gone astray, Baa-aa-aa! Gentlemen-rankers out on the spree, Damned from here to Eternity, God ha' mercy on such as we, Baa! Yah! Bah!
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Despite wanting to work in publishing, I was a publisher's worst nightmare: I rarely bought new books. So my goal was to publish the kind of books I would buy, and read. My reading habits have changed since starting the press. The only other "goal", per say, is to continue to experiment. I don't want the press to ever fall into a formula, or to be pigeonholed - "They do great reissues of modernist poets!" - I want to keep pushing, exploring the kind of title we can get away with. And working with authors who challenge the way I think about writing, editing and reading.
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You grow up a bit damaged or broken then you have some success but you don't know how to feel good about the work you're doing or the life you're leading.
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When one drives away the negligent through vigilance, he climbs the heights of wisdom, and can see the suffering masses. Serene, you look upon the lost like one that stands on a mountain sees those that stand upon the plain.
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Never get married in the morning, because you never know who you'll meet that night.
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The most important Bible teaching that I remembered when I was in the Navy and when I was Commander-in-Chief, was that we worshipped The Prince of Peace. Jesus Christ is The Prince of Peace. So, I considered myself, as a submarine officer, as helping to preserve the peace. And I felt the same way when I was president.
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Your harvest is not in view until your prayers rise up to heaven.
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Our nature hardly allows us to have enough of anything without having too much.
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Anger is never without an Argument, but seldom with a good one.
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I think it’s interesting to me to talk to people who don’t agree with me all the time.
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My visual landscape as a child was the inside of a lot of these old churches. And the Baroque drama of the things was what I was first engaging with artwise. I'm much more attracted to the aesthetic of religious iconography than the actual religious side. The passion and the blood and the violence and the gaudy side of it I find really fascinating.
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I can't say that I've ever actually got on a horse and roped a cow, no.
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I enjoy my work. I haven't been an actor for 30 years without getting pleasure out of the profession.
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What I would like to see is sufficiently good education and health services being delivered to Aboriginal people so that they are prepared and ready to leave and join the economic mainstream if that's their choice.
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Even trivial events demonstrate strong devotion to the Universe and small concern for ego.
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Glasgow is still full of churches built in the last century. Half of them have been turned into warehouses.
