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"It was a night when London was ringed and stabbed with fire."
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"Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit."
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"Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course."
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"There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism."
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"Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire."
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"I never wanted to set the world on fire. So I never had to burn any bridges behind me."
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"If your house is burning, wouldn't you try and put out the fire?"
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"Always give them the old fire, even when you feel like a squashed cake of ice."
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"I caught on fire twice on the stage, but I was promptly put out. It was just my leg."
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"It takes two flints to make a fire."
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"The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes."
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"Someday when peace has returned to this odd world I want to come to London again and stand on a certain balcony on a moonlit night and look down upon the peaceful silver curve of the Thames with its dark bridges."
Peace
"Swinging first and swinging to kill is all that matters now."
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"In their eyes as they pass is not hatred, not excitement, not despair, not the tonic of their victory - there is just the simple expression of being here as though they had been here doing this forever, and nothing else."
Victory
"I've been immersed in it too long. My spirit is wobbly and my mind is confused. The hurt has become too great."
Hurt
"Our artillery has really been sensational. For once we have enough of something and at the right time. Officers tell me they actually have more guns than they know what to do with."
Time
"The front-line soldier wants it to be got over by the physical process of his destroying enough Germans to end it. He is truly at war. The rest of us, no matter how hard we work, are not."
War
"I've really been sick with this cold, but I think I might have kept the columns going anyhow except I was just so low in spirit, I didn't have the will to struggle against them when my deadline was so close and I felt so lousy."
Spirit
"Below us the Thames grew lighter, and all around below were the shadows - the dark shadows of buildings and bridges that formed the base of this dreadful masterpiece."
Danger
"If you go long enough without a bath, even the fleas will leave you alone."
Lifestyle
"The closest fires were near enough for us to hear the crackling flames and the yells of firemen. Little fires grew into big ones even as we watched. Big ones died down under the firemen's valor only to break out again later."
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