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Henry Mayhew

"Facts, according to my ideas, are merely the elements of truths, and not the truths themselves; of all matters there are none so utterly useless by themselves as your mere matters of fact."

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"Facts, according to my ideas, are merely the elements of truths, and not the truths themselves; of all matters there are none so utterly useless by themselves as your mere matters of fact."

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"You would be amazed by how I can torture the English language. I am an abusive lover."

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"The future is created by those who have a great imagination and the will to make it a reality by their actions."

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"Develop your own skills and styles. In music, designing, electronics, etc., you may have a peculiar way of exposing your dreams in an uncommon way."

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"A creative mind is a spark of divinity."

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"Flawed genius is better than flawless talent."

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"People have many cruel expectations from writers. People expect novelists to live on a hill with three kids and a spouse, people expect children's story writers to never have sex, and people expect all great poets to be dead. And these are all very difficult expectations to fulfill, I think."

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"I write to fill my mind with the ecstasy of life."

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"If imagination is your wealth, then ideas are your abode."

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"It is easy enough to be moral after a good dinner beside a snug coal fire, and with our hearts well warmed with fine old port."
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"We may either proceed from principles to facts, or recede from facts to principles."
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"Advice to persons about to marry - don't."
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"Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings."
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"There is a tone of morality throughout the rural districts of England, which is unhappily wanting in the large towns and the centres of particular manufactures."
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"In No. 1 of this street the cholera first appeared seventeen years ago, and spread up it with fearful virulence; but this year it appeared at the opposite end, and ran down it with like severity."
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"The costermongers' boys will, I am informed, cheat their employers, but they do not steal from them."
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