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Quotes by British Authors
"Thus times do shift, each thing his turn does hold; New things succeed, as former things grow old."
"The feeling of not belonging, of not being entirely worthy, of being sometimes hostage to your own sensibilities. Those things speak to me very personally."
"I prefer, where truth is important, to write fiction."
"You never know yourself till you know more than your body."
"It's unlikely that the organized religions will get more sectarian... or is it? I am not at all sure."
"Within living memory of this country, men could rape their wives: women were not seen as a separate sexual entity, with the right of refusal."
"Verily, a man without fear is either dead or happy to die."
"A brier rose whose buds yield fragrant harvest for the honey bee."
"The stuff you bring back from dreams is free."
"Men would find it much harder because men have such odd personal relationships with each other. They don't really emotionally connect, whereas women do. I think women become very close."
"I was a savage for so many years of my life. There was some seed of determination in me that I was not conscious of. I was mostly consciously getting into trouble and drunk."
"An unliterary man may be defined as one who reads books once only. . . . We do not enjoy a story fully at the first reading. Not till the curiosity, the sheer narrative lust, has been given its sop and laid asleep, are we at leisure to savour the real beauties. Till then, it is like wasting great wine on a ravenous natural thirst which merely wants cold wetness."
"From a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent it."
"The best thing to do is find one person in your life and try to love them unconditionally. If you've accomplished that, you've accomplished a lot."
"An awful lot of gay pop stars pretend to be straight. I'm going to start a movement of straight pop stars pretending to be gay."
"Europe and the U.K. are yesterday's world. Tomorrow is in the United States."
"If any human being is to reach full maturity both the masculine and feminine sides of the personality must be brought up into consciousness."
"The problem, for me, with the writing programs is that they produce a terrible uniformity of product."
"Really the only thing holding a lot of records together is the personality of the singer, and the will to write all of these different things."
"Where there is no imagination there is no horror."
"There are many critics who have an idealised version of where my strengths lie."
"There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth."
"Of course risk-taking does not always pay off, but it's a lot of fun!"
"Our army is composed of the scum of the earth - the mere scum of the earth."
"The modern world is personal; people want to know intimate things."
"And, in a funny way, each death is different and you mourn each death differently and each death brings back the death you mourned earlier and you get into a bit of a pile-up."
"Close to the Edge, Red, One of a kind, Discipline, Earthworks, The Sound of Surprise, all seem to me to be albums that captured the essence of the intention."
"I think my fascination is less with genre figures than with writers in general."
"I think it's a great document of John Stevens' originality. At that time he was already much more fully formed in his conception than I was. I was sort of struggling to keep up, and sometimes it's pretty obvious."
"HIV does not make people dangerous to know, so you can shake their hands and give them a hug: Heaven knows they need it."
"I had my first amendment rights removed by a USA judge for a video that I recorded in the public sidewalk. The right to free speech and freedom of the press only partially exists in the USA."
"Would I come off as a creepy-stalker-kind-of-guy or would it demonstrate that I cared?"
"On the whole, I prefer Christmas as an adult than I did as a child."
"I don't think I would have been a good mother. Being a parent brings immense responsibility. It's a Herculean task. It would be almost too much for me."
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