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Quotes by British Authors
"Images of the Holy easily become holy images -- sacrosanct. My idea of God is not a divine idea. It has to be shattered time after time. He shatters it Himself. He is the great iconoclast. Could we not almost say that this shattering is one of the marks His presence? The Incarnation is the supreme example, it leads all previous idea of the Messiah in ruins."
"My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane."
"My chances of being PM are about as good as the chances of finding Elvis on Mars, or my being reincarnated as an olive."
"I am convinced that living in an enclave shapes the personality, and living alone shapes the personality too."
"From the first moment I handled my lens with a tender ardour."
"The facts of a person's life will, like murder, come out."
"And, of course, supernatural elements just make a story more interesting."
"St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel."
"Ah, who can tell how hard it is to climb the steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar?"
"We always had chocolates and my mother was careful to make sure they were unwrapped in advance so the paper wouldn't rustle in the middle of a performance."
"Those who cannot conceive of Friendship as a substantive love but only as a disguise or elaboration of Eros betray the fact that they have never had a Friend."
"One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things."
"Christianity had two faces which bewildered me - two pictures which didn't fit."
"There is nothing you lack and all you will find, we are one at the heart - just divided by mind. Don't let life pass you by."
"The place where optimism flourishes most is the lunatic asylum."
"Never call an accountant a credit to his profession; a good accountant is a debit to his profession."
"Martin Jarvis was to have played the part originally but I think I had longer hair or something, I know not."
"We need to show that we know and understand and can reflect today's Britain. Today we don't."
"I guess my enthusiasm kind of rubs off on people."
"You have to accept all sides of yourself " there's no point fighting them " just learn how to handle them, and return to the positive, balanced being you know you can be, once the winds have blown through."
"I mean, Chris is, I'm sure, a wonderful guy. But in those days he also very, very late. For all appointments and departures and arrivals and sound checks and anything."
"You know too well the forces which compose their army to dread their superior numbers."
"I am only 8 years old, I told myself. No little boy of 8 has ever murdered anyone. It's not possible."
"It is much more important to be oneself than anything else."
"Every layer of complexity creates greater distance from life's simple truths."
"There was a distinction between lying and telling half-truths, but it was a very narrow one."
"Declaring independence was the most traumatic decision I had to live up to. Because I didn't want to do it."
"He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for everyone has need to be forgiven."
"The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes. He has left them in the full enjoyment of their liberal positions, and he is himself a strict conservative of their garments."
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