Jorge Luis Borges Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual. – Jorge Luis Borges Activity Quotes Civil Quotes Intellectual Quotes Reading Quotes Resigned Quotes Subsequent Quotes Writing Quotes The original is unfaithful to the translation. The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
Sebastian Coe My mother was Indian, brought up in Delhi. My grandparents were born in Bow and Poplar. – Sebastian Coe
James Blunt Like any parents, mine wanted me to have a secure job with a regular wage and career prospects. And the one job my father knew of, that he’d had experience of himself, was the army, so he could help me in that direction. – James Blunt
Darryl Pinckney For a long time, Nella Larsen was the mystery woman of the Harlem Renaissance. In the late 1920s, she published two sophisticated novels, ‘Quicksand’ and ‘Passing,’ and then her writing life came to an end. She died in obscurity in 1964. – Darryl Pinckney
DreamsOlive Schreiner Our fathers had their dreams; we have ours; the generation that follows will have its own. Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist. – Olive Schreiner
Edgar BronfmanSr The search for a Jewish national home came about due to centuries of anti-Semitic pogroms, expulsions, discrimination and hate. The Holocaust was simply the evil culmination of all that came before it. – Edgar Bronfman, Sr
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