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Quotes by British Authors
"I wonder sometimes if manufacturers of foolproof items keep a fool or two on their payroll to test things."
"The course of true love rarely runs smooth."
"It is over one hundred years since the abolition of slavery. The Negro people in the United States have taken plenty and they have reached a stage where they have decided that they are not going to take any more."
"I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman."
"Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet."
"I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence."
"It's easy to give up at the beginning of something, but after gaining a bit of momentum it's not as tempting or easy to just give up."
"A lie is no less a lie because it is a thousand years old. Your undivided church has liked nothing better than persecuting its own members, burning them and hacking them apart when they stood by their own conscience, slashing their bellies open and feeding their guts to dogs."
"In fact, in recent years I have become more and more didactic about pubic hair - to the point where I now believe that there are only four things a grown, modern woman should have: a pair of yellow shoes (they unexpectedly go with everything), a friend who will come and post bail at 4 a.m., a fail-safe pie recipe, and a proper muff. A big, hairy minge. A lovely furry moof that looks - when she sits, naked - as if she has a marmoset sitting in her lap. A tame marmoset, that she can send of to pickpocket things, should she so need it - like that trained monkey in Raiders of the Lost Ark."
"I can't moan about any of it. I had a great time in the goldfish bowl."
"Blade Runner appears regularly, two or three times a year in various shapes and forms of science fiction. It set the pace for what is essentially urban science fiction, urban future and it's why I've never re-visited that area because I feel I've done it."
"I did not think much what I was writing them for, except that I knew I wanted my next novel to be in some less conventional form than straight narrative."
"The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice."
"It is up to you to decide that this has lasted long enough, that our boys are dying to serve no British interest but for the interests of a small clique of utterly unscrupulous men."
"I'm very interested in good and evil and the moral natures of people."
"You've got to respond to that and of course thinking through the role of a left party in the modern world, in the modern economy and society and having a policy response to that."
"The select natures who pant after the ideal, and find nothing in pantaloons or petticoats great enough to command their reverence and love, are curiously in unison with the narrowest and pettiest."
"The real regrets in life are the risks you didn't take."
"The world was a vale of tears-it always had been."
"My parents and grandparents have always been engaged in teaching or the medical profession or the priesthood, so I've sort of grown up with a sense of complicity in the lives of other people, so there's no virtue in that; it's the way one is raised."
"Never feel this bad again. Never come back to this place, where only a knife will do. Live a gentle and kind life. Don't do things that make you want to hurt yourself. Whatever you do, every day, remember this - then steer away from here."
"Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste."
"I still buy nice pieces but, at the moment, they're presents for other people, so I only collect vicariously."
"The status quo and the media is doing everything it can to fry children's brains and make them grow up maladjusted."
"I did tests on small stones before collecting and committing myself to the larger ones."
"Machiavelli's teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith."
"I mean, there's times to rock and roll, and I love that too. But I think my first love is acoustic music."
"I used to fear their deaths--the car! the dog! the sea! the germ!--until I realized it need never be a problem: on the trolley, on the way to the mortuary, I would put my hands into their ribs and take their hearts and swallow them, and give birth to them again, so that they would never, ever end."
"Over 90% of people go home at the end of the day feeling unfulfilled by their work, and I won't stop working until that statistic is reversed - until over 90% of people go home and can honestly say, 'I love what I do'."
"We shouldn't have got married, really. Shouldn't have got married. Too young. Not ready for it."
"My ambition when I started out was to play two or three gigs a week. And that's what I'm doing."
"Lovers may be - and indeed generally are - enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations."
"You should be aware that anywhere that a ground rod is installed, that there may be AC voltage/current/frequency in the vicinity of it."
"We all had a desire and appreciation for such a wide range of music."
"Evolution is true, it happens, it is the way the world is, and we too are one of its products. This does not mean that evolution does not have metaphysical implications; I remain convinced that this is the case."
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