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Quotes by British Authors
"Probably the simplest hypothesis... is that there may be a slow process of annihilation of matter."
"There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles."
"The whole thing of weight, I guess it's because there is a wider fascination we all have with weight."
"I did start reading quite young but I was always read to by my parents, who are both actors. Bedtime stories from when I was about two/three to when I was about 15. In fact they didn't stop until I eventually kind of kicked them out of my bedroom."
"Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery."
"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."
"Pretensions to moral superiority are devastatingly destructive."
"The day of the wedding went like these things generally do, full of anxious moments interspersed with black comedy."
"I have always been willing to take the blame for the things I have done."
"The pure natural scientist is liable to forget that minds exist, and that if it were not for them he could neither know nor act on physical objects."
"There will be masses available all day long. Confession available all day long."
"Many years ago I was in another soap opera called The Newcomers which was on twice a week for three years. I really don't think I could do another stint like that again."
"I was so incensed that I was oblivious to all as I ran over broken glass, holding a five-foot weightlifting bar. The glass tore the soles of my feet as I chased the gang's car up the street. I remember breathing heavily as I cursed failing to catch my enemies."
"I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not, it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life."
"A woman who looks like a girl and thinks like a man is the best sort, the most enjoyable to be and the most pleasurable to have and to hold."
"Hollywood hasn't aggressively pursued me. Neither have I aggressively pursued Hollywood."
"I am sure it must be true that people opt out of the mainstream society because they feel that there are going to be no rewards for them, if they stay."
"Where there is no imagination there is no horror."
"The essence of war is violence. Moderation in war is imbecility."
"The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart."
"Just in our lifetime our society has become looser and more private, it becomes extremely difficult to hold to any permanent commitment whatever, least of all to organized religion."
"The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics."
"Mad, is he? Then I hope he will bite some of my other generals."
"Utopianism is probably a necessary social device for generating the superhuman efforts without which no major revolution is achieved."
"For the first half of this century, High Court judges have been cautious to the point of timidity in expressing any criticism of governmental action; the independence of the judiciary has been of a decidedly subordinate character."
"Enemy-occupied territory---that is what this world is. Christianity is the story of how the rightful king has landed, you might say landed in disguise, and is calling us to take part in a great campaign of sabotage."
"You see, another reason for nationalization was that private ownership meant fragmentation."
"We must find new lands from which we can easily obtain raw materials and at the same time exploit the cheap slave labor that is available from the natives of the colonies. The colonies would also provide a dumping ground for the surplus goods produced in our factories."
"Every part I play is just a variant of my own personality. No real character actor, of course, just me."
"Britain in the 1970s was undoubtedly an economic mess because of the oil price explosion."
"It's about the music and that's it. I'm not an entertainer. But I do entertain people, see what I mean?"
"This creed of the desert seemed inexpressible in words, and indeed in thought."
"It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue."
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