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Quotes by British Authors
"Expansion means complexity and complexity decay."
"Common sense says that chairs and tables exist independently of whether anyone happens to perceive them or not."
"When I was young and we got caught pinching apples, we got a smack from the local policeman. Today if that happened he would be sued. There is a tendency to punish the victim, not the criminal. If someone broke into my house or my mum's house, I worry that the burglar has more rights than me."
"There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others."
"In the space of a decade, China and India have emerged as dramatic, dynamic competitors."
"We have now seen that there is no particle of evidence for the Egyptian origin of Tarot cards."
"Always walk as if you're running late, it's healthier."
"Familiarity with evil breeds not contempt but acceptance."
"But I must think that an address to his majesty to remove one of his servants, without so much as alleging any particular crime against him, is one of the greatest encroachments that was ever made upon the prerogatives of the crown."
"I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves."
"We are the wilderness withinScreaming out for true expression.Even when we're sleeping,There's no escape from this obsession."
"Weight doesn't matter as long as you're happy with yourself."
"If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom."
"Luisa rolls her napkin into a compact ball. "I ask three simple questions. How did he get that power? How is he using it? And how can it be taken off the sonofabitch?"
"Affirmations: "I love & respect my mind, body, spirit." & "I do what best nurtures all parts of myself." & "I thrive on wholeness." Namaste!"
"We need to show that we know and understand and can reflect today's Britain. Today we don't."
"Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at the stars because we are human?"
"In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern."
"You can judge me all you want, but it's just ridiculous coz we're both part of the same universe. Let's just ride the horses into the meadow and let them roll in the delightful grass."
"The Government are very keen on amassing statistics - they collect them, add them, raise them to the nth power, take the cube root and prepare wonderful diagrams."
"You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion."
"You can know a person by the kind of desk he keeps. If the president of a company has a clean desk then it must be the executive vice president who is doing all the work."
"Live in a cosmic ocean, singing sweet hallucinations, dreams of many worlds, all flowing into one.... inner / outer mirrored love."
"Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation."
"Music is a gut thing. You're working in a medium which is more in touch with the primal than the modern. A gig is a ritual. There's a congregation."
"[T]he infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell."
"I didn't really escape that gravity until I moved 300 miles south to go to college at 18, where authorship no longer seemed something liable to induce vengeful punishment."
"Where there is no consciousness, there is no time."
"That's rather a broad idea," I remarked. "One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature," he answered."
"In politics the choice is constantly between two evils."
"As much as the next person, I want to be approved of, but I'm not greedy for that stuff."
"The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them."
"I beg your pardon, one knows exactly what to think."
"Put a bridle on thy tongue; set a guard before thy lips, lest the words of thine own mouth destroy thy peace... on much speaking cometh repentance, but in silence is safety."
"I mean, I'm in a band, we're reasonably successful, I've got a very nice suit - I'm not even a bad person- so why can't I get a shag?"
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