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"I am never at my best in the early morning, especially a cold morning in the Yorkshire spring with a piercing March wind sweeping down from the fells, finding its way inside my clothing, nipping at my nose and ears."
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"I hope to make people realize how totally helpless animals are, how dependent on us, trusting as a child must that we will be kind and take care of their needs."
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"I wish people would realize that animals are totally dependent on us, helpless, like children, a trust that is put upon us."
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"If a farmer calls me to a sick animal, he couldn't care less if I were George Bernard Shaw."
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"There was no last animal I treated. When young farm lads started to help me over the gate into a field or a pigpen, to make sure the old fellow wouldn't fall, I started to consider retiring."
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"I was helped by having a verbatim memory of what happened years ago, even if I can't remember what happened a couple of days ago."
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"I will write another book if I feel like it."
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"I think it was the fact that I liked it so much that made the writing just come out of me automatically."
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"They can't find my house now because I keep it very quiet where I live."
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"Cats are connoisseurs of comfort."
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"I love writing about my job because I loved it, and it was a particularly interesting one when I was a young man. It was like holidays with pay to me."
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"They were heading out to the middle of the bay - the Gulf - that's another thing that became kind of standard practice, we didn't hurry the destroyers around the beach any more, when it got dark, we'd take 'em out thirty or forty miles out in the middle of the Tonkin Gulf."
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"A youthful American voice isn't particularly challenging - I've been a young American, and they're all around me. I can walk from my house to Barrington High School."
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"Perhaps the most difficult thing is shooting scenes set 6,000 feet up in the mountains of Mexico."
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"The city of London, within the walls, occupies a space of only 370 acres, and is but the hundred and fortieth part of the extent covered by the whole metropolis."
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"There's nothing like New Orleans. When it comes back, it will be a tremendous highlight for America."
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"Paris ain't much of a town."
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"I come from Brazil, which is a Portuguese speaking part of the continent."
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"Me, my literary reputation is mostly abroad, but I am anchored here in New York. I can't think of any other place I'd rather die than here."
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"In 1958, I came to Chicago where I have remained."
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"I am never at my best in the early morning, especially a cold morning in the Yorkshire spring with a piercing March wind sweeping down from the fells, finding its way inside my clothing, nipping at my nose and ears."
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