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“I would skip through pages of Tess of the d’Urbervilles until I reached a part where one of the characters said something, meaning I barely read any of it, given how much of the book seemed to be about trees.”
― Verity Babbs

“I'm not a religious believer, yet despite that I go to church. I love the architecture, the music, the words of the Bible, and the sense of sharing something profound with other people. I have long found deep spiritual peace in the great cathedrals, as do many millions of people, believers and nonbelievers alike.”
― Ken Follett, Notre-Dame: A Short History of the Meaning of Cathedrals

“Yes, there is something distinctive and recognizable in English civilization. It is somehow bound up with solid breakfasts and gloomy Sundays, smoky towns and winding roads, green fields and red pillar-boxes.”
― George Orwell, The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius

“I carry from my mother's womb
A fanatic heart.”
― W.B. Yeats, Selected Poems and Four Plays