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"I find Cambridge an asylum, in every sense of the word."
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"All of which was OK, as that proved then, I certainly wouldn't contradict it as a necessary sense of things."

"I do read everything that we publish. We usually have to have two or three votes for a book before we take it on. So in that sense I suppose it is an orchestra."

"Getting on stage is a bonus, that's my therapy, that's when I can tell stories and it all makes sense."

"It was a scene in the sense that we were all close and we all knew each other before the different bands had really formed. We used to rehearse in the same place."

"A lot of bands that reunite do it for the wrong reasons. They do it for the bucks and everybody can sense it."

"Well, I suppose that, in a sense, every screen role is a favourite with me."

"When you stand on the stage you must have a sense that you are addressing the whole world, and that what you say is so important the whole world must listen."
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"The laws of God, the laws of man he may keep that will and can; not I: let God and man decree laws for themselves and not for me."

"Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure."

"Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write."

"If a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act."

"Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young."

"Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions."
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