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Like true philosophers I've come to believe that religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown after proper education. ↗


— Josh Lanyon


#josh-lanyon #religion #religious-faith #satanism #the-hell-you-say

Love is simple, if you allow it to be simple." Julian to Hannah, Take A Chance ↗


— Alison Wong


#chinese #england #english #funny #love

From this point on in our lives, she had whispered to him earlier, we will either find or lose our souls. ↗


— Michael Ondaatje


#love #michael-ondaatje #romance #the-english-patient #war

Ninety-nine per cent of traditional English literature concerns people who never have to worry about money at all. We always seem to be watching or reading about emotional crises among folk who live in a world of great fortune both in matters of luck and money; stories and fantasies about rock stars and film stars, sporting millionaires and models; jet-setting members of the aristocracy and international financiers. ↗


— James Kelman


#crises #emotional #english-literature #fortune #money

Nature pulls one way and human nature another. ↗


— E.M. Forster


#english-lit #gay-authors #nature

In the English language there are orphans and widows, but there is no word for the parents who loses a child. ↗


— Jodi Picoult


#english #inadequacy-of-words #language #lose #loss

I guess that isn't the right word," she said. She was used to apologizing for her use of language. She had been encouraged to do a lot of that in school. Most white people in Midland City were insecure when they spoke, so they kept their sentences short and their words simple, in order to keep embarrassing mistakes to a minimum. Dwayne certainly did that. Patty certainly did that. This was because their English teachers would wince and cover their ears and give them flunking grades and so on whenever they failed to speak like English aristocrats before the First World War. Also: they were told that they were unworthy to speak or write their language if they couldn't love or understand incomprehensible novels and poems and plays about people long ago and far away, such as Ivanhoe. ↗


— Kurt Vonnegut


#love

Your great country is wonderful at stealing pieces of history and using it for its own purposes, so there didn't seem to be anything particularly unusual about it but the English were incredibly exercised about it. ↗


— Michael Apted


#anything #country #english #exercised #great

Of the love or hatred God has for the English, I know nothing, but I do know that they will all be thrown out of France, except those who die there. ↗


— Joan of Arc


#english #except #france #god #hatred

For 180 years, we voted in English. That is the true American tradition, and this amendment is true to our heritage, not what has existed unnaturally for the last 20 years. ↗


— Spencer Bachus


#american #american tradition #english #existed #heritage






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