Carolyn Parrish quotes

“We are not joining the coalition of the idiots. We are joining the coalition of the wise.”
-- Carolyn Parrish

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“My biggest problem with President Bush is when we were in kindergarten together, he broke my favorite red crayon! Since that moment, my psychiatrist told me that I haven't been able to move forward as a person. Severely hindering the chances of me being able to mature any since that tragic day. For that, I'll never forgive him.”
-- Carolyn Parrish

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“Damn Americans. I hate those bastards.”
-- Carolyn Parrish

Source : 'Like sleeping with an insomniac elephant'" by Anne McIlroy, www.theguardian.com. November 1, 2004.

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“The wise say that our failure is to form habits: for habit is the mark of a stereotyped world,”

“We need not take refuge in supernatural gods to explain our saints and sages and heroes and statesmen, as if to explain our disbelief that mere unaided human beings could be that good or wise.”

“I think you’re freaked about what happened at Cambridge. I think it scared you." “I’ve been through worse, Bex,” I said, joining her on the lower stairs. “Way worse.” “Oh, not the attack.” Bex raised her finger in contradiction. “What happened before the attack. I think you saw the future. Which is kind of freaky when - two months ago - you didn’t think you were going to have one.”

“Marriage and especially the ceremony which announces it, the wedding... That is how we say to the world, 'These two are now a family, and with this joining our families are joined, too. And you had damned well better respect that.”

Source : Eileen Wilks (2010). “Blood Magic”, p.287, Penguin

“Allah made joining and connecting with the kinship and cognation, the cause of lengthening of life.”

Source : "Ayan al-Shī'ah" by al-Sayyid Muhsin al-Amin, vol.1, p. 316,

“France is delighted at this new opportunity to show the world ... that when one has the will one can succeed in joining peoples who have been brought close by history.”

“Comic books aren't nerdy. You'd have to be an idiot to think computers are nerdy.”

“Fear has no brains; it is an idiot.”

“I'm not afraid to look like an idiot.”

“But their determination to banish fools foundered ultimately in the installation of absolute idiots.”

Source : Basil Bunting (2016). “The Poems of Basil Bunting”, p.66, Faber & Faber