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Quotes by British Authors
"Our share of the vote overall rose by less than 1 per cent - yes, that's right: less than 1 per cent."
"Women are only children of a larger growth. A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humours and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters."
"The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts."
"Karma, simply put, is an action for an action ... good or bad."
"The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it."
"A famous person to themselves, they don't get up in the morning and think, I'm famous. I'm not famous to me. Famous is a perception."
"The one thing you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can. The moment that you feel that just possibly you are walking down the street naked, that's the moment you may be starting to get it right."
"The last words he said to me when I bade him good-night were:Tell Amy it's no good coming after me. Anyhow, I shall change my hotel, so she wouldn't be able to find me.'My own impression is that she's well rid of you,' I said.My dear fellow, I only hope you'll be able to make her see it. But women are very unintelligent."
"I could not be happy with a man whose taste did not in every point coincide with my own. He must enter in all my feelings; the same books, the same music must charm us both."
"Death was kind. He drew a sharp breath. 'But no father should have to give such a kindness to his child."
"Humanity does not pass through phases as a train passes through stations: being alive, it has the privilege of always moving yet never leaving anything behind. Whatever we have been, in some sort we are still."
"You get on with your own life. Lettie gave it to you. You just have to grow up and try and be worth it."
"I didn't want a divorce but had to because of circumstance."
"Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets."
"I do not believe that all books will or should migrate onto screens: as Douglas Adams once pointed out to me, more than 20 years before the Kindle showed up, a physical book is like a shark. Sharks are old: there were sharks in the ocean before the dinosaurs. And the reason there are still sharks around is that sharks are better at being sharks than anything else is. Physical books are tough, hard to destroy, bath-resistant, solar-operated, feel good in your hand: they are good at being books, and there wil always be a place for them."
"Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of."
"It sounds like something on a very trite T-shirt, but life is what happens."
"My second job has been to try to use my power to create institutions of a modern state that could enter the European Union, and there was very little time. The door was closing, and I wanted to get Bosnia through before it shut."
"My language is what I use, and if I lost that, I wouldn't be able to say anything."
"Envy yearns to find flaws."
"One can only guess the amount of magic mushrooms a sane person would have to consume to believe that a frisbee constituted a genuine threat to roughly 3,000 police officers."
"I was by far the youngest of the family, and at times it was like being an only child."
"The bridge of grace will bear your weight, brother. Thousands of big sinners have gone across that bridge, yea, tens of thousands have gone over it. Some have been the chief of sinners and some have come at the very last of their days but the arch has never yielded beneath their weight. I will go with them trusting to the same support. It will bear me over as it has for them."
"People may say that what I do is very clever, but it's not really at all. It's not Swift."
"I cannot understate the ability to handle classical texts such as Shakespeare."
"The less you need, the more you live."
"I explored because I was feeling really crappy, and I wanted to know why."
"It's terrible. How can we tell the world who the real Michael Jackson is?"
"All the world over, I will back the masses against the classes."
"The Inhabitants of Carolina, thro' the Richness of the Soil, live an easy and pleasant Life."
"Sometimes I think that we're the aliens."
"The physical fabric of the world had to be such as to enable that ten billion year preliminary evolution to produce the raw materials of life. Without it there would not have been the chemical materials to allow life to evolve here on earth."
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