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"It was a world that I wanted to record because it was such a miracle visitation to me."
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"The world dies over and over again, but the skeleton always gets up and walks."

"At 17, I dreamed of seeing the world. At 19, I had been around the world and back."

"The world is so dreadfully managed, one hardly knows to whom to complain."

"I remember when we were in the World Cup in Australia and I had to win the singles against Tony Payne, best of seven legs, to win it. I was 2-0 down but ended up beating him 4-2."

"A room is like a stage. If you see it without lighting, it can be the coldest place in the world."

"It has been very good here, but the World Cup game was different. It had a different significance to it."

"I am not a specialist but a general practitioner in the world of the arts."

"The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling?"
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"That last winter was a tragic story and I got no personal honour out of it but I was a witness to it."


"But our waking life, and our growing years, were for the most part spent in the kitchen, and until we married, or ran away, it was the common room we shared."


"What she did was to open our eyes to details of country life such as teaching us names of wild flowers and getting us to draw and paint and learn poetry."


"I have been sitting watching that ever since I came back, the continuous variations of light and shadow."
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