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Quotes by British Authors
"All selling should spring from service."
"It is thought that the changeover from hunter to farmer was a slow, gradual process."
"There comes a time in one's life, perhaps in middle age, when we stop and assess who we are, and the life we have."
"Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it."
"You know what's the worst? Having realistic, ordinary expectations taken out of your reach by seemingly unrealistic, extraordinary circumstances."
"I recalled my father-in-law's aphorism "To fool a judge, feign fascination, but to bamboozle the whole court, feign boredom..." & I pretended to extract a speck from my eye."
"Three or four stones in one firing will all react differently. I try to achieve a balance between those that haven't progressed enough and those about to go too far."
"Sometimes in life there's no problem and sometimes in there is no solution. In this space - between these apparent poles - life flows."
"I write into an old book that smells of dust and whose pages are floppy with damp. Sometimes the ink splodges onto the paper, other times it will barely leave the nib of my pen."
"Success is a path of setbacks, passion, purpose and inner strength."
"I found it hard to get motivated because I found it hard to care."
"As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to."
"There's no such thing as writer's block, so long as you've had plenty of time to think about what you want to write."
"Her eyes were full of a hot liquid (she did not think of tears at first) which, without disturbing the firmness of her lips, made the air thick, rolled down her cheeks. She had perfect control of herself-Oh, yes!-in every other way."
"However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks."
"I want someone to sit beside after the day's pursuit and all its anguish, after its listening, and its waitings, and its suspicions. After quarrelling and reconciliation I need privacy - to be alone with you, to set this hubbub in order. For I am as neat as a cat in my habits."
"I have been steadily exchanging a rock audience who were nervous about what they had just bought for a jazz audience who not only were happy with their purchase, but are increasingly coming again."
"Lying's wrong, but when the world spins backwards, a small wrong may be a big right."
"Spent the fortnight gone in the music room reworking my year's fragments into a 'sextet for overlapping soloists': piano, clarinet, 'cello, flute, oboe, and violin, each in its own language of key, scale, and color. In the first set, each solo is interrupted by its successor; in the second, each interruption is recontinued, in order. Revolutionary or gimmicky? Shan't know until it's finished, and by then it'll be too late."
"You think about taking audiences on a journey."
"The ever-increasing weight of responsibilities that enmeshes our lives keeps us locked into the system. We become the pulse that keeps the beast alive, but the cost is our own lives. The natural world around us shrinks, crushed beneath the suffocating might of work."
"If you're not happy with yourself, how can you even begin to figure out if another person makes you happy, annoyed, angry, sad and so on."
"Know your magic, trust your magic, use your magic and know that you are a manifestation of life's magic."
"Time is not something to be killed. Doing so suffocates a part of us, writing off part of our life that could, or rather should, be spent doing something meaningful."
"Your choices can only be limited by your mind."
"The method of 'postulating' what we want has many advantages , they are the same as the advantages of theft over honest toil."
"Living in New York is like being at some terrible late-night party. You're tired, you've had a headache since you arrived, but you can't leave because then you'd miss the party."
"I've always had a love affair with the ocean. It's my one and only true love."
"Moreover, in the experimental sciences, the scientific fraternity must test a new theory to destruction, if possible."
"I was slightly brain damaged at birth, and I want people like me to see that they shouldn't let a disability get in the way. I want to raise awareness - I want to turn my disability into ability."
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