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«I enjoy talking to you more than anybody else because I never feel I am giving myself away and so can admit to shady, dishonest, crawling, cowardly, unjust, arrogant, snobbish, lecherous, perverted and generally shameful feelings that I don't want anybody else to know about; but most of all because I am always on the verge of violent laughter when talking to you.If you were here, I keep thinking, we would spend the time in talk and drink and smoke and I should be laughing a lot of the time, and I should be enjoying myself a lot of the time.»
Author: Kingsley Amis
(Critic, Novelist, Poet, Teacher)
| About:
Friendship,
Life
| Keywords:
crawled, crawls, enjoying, perverting, perverts, verges
«Faith consists in being vitally concerned with that ultimate reality to which I give the symbolical name of God. Whoever reflects earnestly on the meaning of life is on the verge of an act of faith.»
Author: Paul Tillich
(Philosopher, Theologian)
| About:
Faith,
God
| Keywords:
earnestly, name of God, reflects, symbolical, The Meaning of Life, verge, verges, vitally
«If the truth be known, we are on the verge of losing an entire generation of our young people, killing and dying in the streets of America»
«Lord of the far horizons,Give us the eyes to seeOver the verge of the sundownThe beauty that is to be.»
«All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man; no society will survive a shortage of women.»
«Death (or its allusion) makes men precious and pathetic. They are moving because of their phantom condition; every act they execute may be their last; there is not a face that is not on the verge of dissolving like a face in a dream.»
«The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him.»
Author: Jose Ortega y Gasset
| About:
Creativity,
Innovation
| Keywords:
Creation, creatures, efficacy, forgot, fruitful, magic, potentialities, potentiality, tool, verges
«I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.»
Author: Tennessee Williams
| About:
Character
| Keywords:
characters, desperate, fragile, frightened, hysteria, identify, reach out, seemingly, The characters, verge, verges