Hey you! I told you to slow that nag down! Because of you, I almost heard the opera!
Short-term amnesia is not the worst affliction if you have an Irish flair for the sauce.
To blame the poor for subsisting on welfare has no justice unless we are also willing to judge every rich member of society by how productive he or she is. Taken individual by individual, it is likely that there's more idleness and abuse of government favors among the economically privileged than among the ranks of the disadvantaged.
The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.
Harsh words live in the dungeon of the heart
There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same.
Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.
Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly?
But libraries are about freedom. Freedom to read, freedom of ideas, freedom of communication. They are about education (which is not a process that finishes the day we leave school or university), about entertainment, about making safe spaces, and about access to information.
But this is what I know about people getting ready to walk of the edge of their own lives: they want someone to know how they got there. Maybe they want to know that when they dissolve into earth and water, that last fragment will be saved, held in some corner of someone's mind; or maybe all they want is a chance to dump it pulsing and bloody into someone else's hands, so it won't weigh them down on the journey. They want to leave their stories behind. No one in all the world knows that better than I do.
I get mad quick and and go off at the handle quick.