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Quotes by British Authors
"It's a journalist's job to be a witness to history. We're not there to worry about ourselves. We're there to try and get as near as we can, in an imperfect world, to the truth and get the truth out."
"I think there's a tremendous split between people who've been through a war and people who haven't."
"It is essential to happiness that our way of living should spring from our own deep impulses and not from the accidental tastes and desires of those who happen to be our neighbors, or even our relations."
"The smallest good act today is the capture of a strategic point from which, a few months later, you may be able to go on to victories you never dreamed of. "
"The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor."
"Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully, or just completely, the correct response to death's perfect punctuation mark is a smile."
"You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over."
"Discipline strengthens the mind so that it becomes impervious to the corroding influence of fear."
"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."
"For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert."
"If you do what everyone else does, you will get what everyone else gets."
"For we think back through our mothers if we are women."
"I have always had a dread of becoming a passenger in life."
"But love...it's only an illusion. A story one makes up in one's mind about another person. And one knows all the time it isn't true. Of course one knows why one's always taking care not to destroy the illusion."
"You're Hell's Angels, then? What chapter are you from?''REVELATIONS. CHAPTER SIX."
"The method of 'postulating' what we want has many advantages , they are the same as the advantages of theft over honest toil."
"We seem to think we have some control over this planet."
"Nurture a desire to be free from the clock."
"Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines."
"Very much like that, and very much a loner, do you know and I didn't fit really into sport or all kind of group activities as a kid, I couldn't find a niche. And music was not really part of the kind of village curriculum it would, you know."
"The curtains would open and it would be just her standing in some ludicrous pose, like Aphrodite."
"I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored."
"If you suffer from depression, anything that makes you feel has to the most important thing in your life, because it's the only thing that can save you."
"If I decide to be indecisive, that's my decision."
"Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm."
"The existence of law is one thing; its merit or demerit is another."
"I can establish the expectation of retributive justice. Have we done that? No."
"I don't have any expectations as an actor and being rich and famous is not my driving force."
"Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future."
"My sense of responsibility to the audience is to screen things that they would never see in a local theater."
"An intellectual is someone who has found something more interesting than sex."
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