#mo

It was a very odd household, because the grandmothers were so different. Both of them had their own pianos. So it would be duelling pianos by grandmothers. ↗

— Diane Cilento

#both #different #grandmothers #had #household

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#democracy #except #form #government #others

I would take plays and I would cut out all the other dialogue and make long monologues because I felt the other kids weren't taking it as seriously as I did. ↗

— Sally Field

#cut #dialogue #did #felt #i

I also read that spending time with a pedophile can be like a drug high. There was this girl who said it’s as if the pedophile lives in a fantastic kind of reality, and that fantasticness infects everything. Kind of like they’re children themselves, only full of the knowledge that children don’t have. Their imaginations are stronger than kids’ and they can build realities that small kids would never be able to dream up. They can make the child’s world… ecstatic somehow. And when it’s over, for people who’ve been through this, it’s like coming off of heroin and, for years, they can’t stop chasing the ghost of how it felt. One girl said that it’s like the earth is scorched and the grass won’t grow back. And the ground looks black and barren but inside it’s still burning. ↗

— Margaux Fragoso

#dreams

When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#claimed #everything #happens #right #war

If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#almighty #anything #asked #atmosphere #attempted

If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#devil #favourable #hell #hitler #house

Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#grinder #hold #monkey #never #organ

I was only the servant of my country and had I, at any moment, failed to express her unflinching resolve to fight and conquer, I should at once have been rightly cast aside. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#aside #been #cast #conquer #country

I remember that during the period leading up to independence in Angola in 1975, I was the only correspondent there at all for three months. ↗

— Ryszard Kapuscinski

#correspondent #during #i #i remember #independence