Source: Midnight's Children
“The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a deal longer.”
Source: The Professor at the Breakfast Table (1859), Ch. XI.
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Charles Mackay
(1814–1889) British writer
"The Good Time Coming".
Voices from the Crowd, and Town Lyrics (1857)
Context: There’s a good time coming, boys!
A good time coming.
We may not live to see the day,
But earth shall glisten in the ray
Of the good time coming.
Cannon-balls may aid the truth
But thought’s a weapon stronger;
We’ll win our battles by its aid,
Wait a little longer.
Variant: And she kissed me. It was the kind of kiss that I could never tell my friends about out loud. It was the kind of kiss that made me know that I was never so happy in my whole life.
Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Source: At the Back of the North Wind (1871), Chapter 18
“A great deal that I no longer continue in myself continues there on its own.”
Antonio Porchia
(1885–1968) Italian Argentinian poet
Mucho de lo he dejado de hacer en mí, sigue haciéndose en mí, solo.
Voces (1943)
“If the deaf are to hear, the sound has to be very loud.”
Bhagat Singh
(1907–1931) Indian revolutionary
As quoted in Awakening Indians to India (2008), p. 82
Context: If the deaf are to hear, the sound has to be very loud. When we dropped the bomb, it was not our intention to kill anybody. We have bombed the British Government. The British must quit India and make her free.
Traudl Junge
(1920–2002) secretary to Adolf Hitler
Five Days That Shocked the World: Eyewitness Accounts from Europe at the End (2011) by Nicholas Best, p. 185.
