"Cities, in many ways, are the best repositories……" — Edna O'Brien
"Cities, in many ways, are the best repositories for a love affair. You are in a forest or a cornfield, you are walking by the seashore, footprint after footprint of trodden sand, and somehow the kiss or the spoken covenant gets lost in the vastness and indifference of nature. In a city there are places to remind us of what has been."
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Edna O'Brien
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43 Quotes by Edna O'Brien
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The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation…
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The proportion between the velocity with which men or animals move, and the weights they carry, is a matter of…
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The humanitarian would, of course, have us meddle in foreign affairs as part of his program of world service.
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Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
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I wanted to be a neurologist. That seemed to be the most difficult, most intriguing, and the most important aspect…
— Roger Bannister
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Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all…
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Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one…
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I started my music career at 18 and for a long while I let other people handle my affairs.
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Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
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Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
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A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.
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Alas for the affairs of men! When they are fortunate you might compare them to a shadow; and if they…
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