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Quotes by British Authors
"I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading; since, as you will agree, one book is only a single unaccompanied note, and to get the full sound, one needs ten others at the same time."
"An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down."
"If your lifeguard duties were as good as your singing, a lot of people would be drowning."
"I never paid attention to what was contemporary or what was commercial, it didn't mean anything to me."
"Autobiography is now as common as adultery and hardly less reprehensible."
"Life for rent means that my life isn't really my own, I only rented it for a while, but if I don't manage to buy it, to own it, then nothing of what I think is mine is really mine."
"I've put in as many as 40 weeks a year on stage. It is lonely and restricted, as all artistic life must necessarily be."
"Violent passions are formed in solitude. In the busy world no object has time to make a deep impression."
"Do I believe in the supernatural? Oh yes, certainly. I can't believe, I can't accept that you die and that's the end. Physically maybe it is a fact. But there's something about the mind that's more than that."
"For two years living in a neutral country I have been able to see through the haze of propaganda to reach something which my conscience tells me is the truth."
"Remember the rights of the savage, as we call him. Remember that the happiness of his humble home, remember that the sanctity of life in the hill villages of Afghanistan, among the winter snows, is as inviolable in the eye of Almighty God, as can be your own."
"Collecting has been my great extravagance. It's a way of being. I collect for the same reason that I eat too much-I'm one of nature's shoppers."
"Create a state of Bliss where everything is in perfect balance."
"Some of these pro-drug messages come from popular culture."
"Some people only dream of success- while others wake up and use Cosmic Ordering."
"Like getting into a bleeding competition with a blood bank."
"For throughout history, you can read the stories of women who - against all the odds - got being a woman right, but ended up being compromised, unhappy, hobbled or ruined, because all around them, society was still wrong. Show a girl a pioneering hero - Sylvia Plath, Dorothy Parker, Frida Kahlo, Cleopatra, Boudicca, Joan of Arc - and you also, more often than not, show a girl a woman who was eventually crushed."
"You see, my ambition was not to confound the engineering world but simply to create a beautiful piece of art."
"People are not perfect... very often the relationships that are strongest are those where people have worked through big crises, but they've had to work through them. So the challenge to us is to work through that."
"Journalists belong in the gutter because that is where the ruling classes throw their guilty secrets."
"Blessing is the soveraign act of God, and the power of benediction like the power of God."
"Not much to be perfectly honest! I thought The Phantom Menace was terrible, except for the Pod Race."
"If you can work and if you're offered a job and you don't take it, you cannot continue to claim benefits. It will be extremely tough."
"When I appear in public people expect me to neigh, grind my teeth, paw the ground and swish my tail - none of which is easy."
"When we got down from the ambulances there were sharp cracks about us as bursts of shrapnel splashed down upon the Town Hall square. Dead soldiers lay outside and I glanced at them coldly. We were in search of the living."
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