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Quotes by English Authors
"The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist."
"Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New."
"My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all."
"The Bishop and Knight, in contradistinction to the Queen and Rook, are called Minor Pieces."
"Publishers like a good buzz, and negative responses sell books just as well as positive ones."
"Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth."
"Go not to the elves for counsel, for they will say both yes and no."
"Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive."
"Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law."
"Writing is a creatively rewarding occupation but for me very time consuming."
"Energy is an eternal delight, and he who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence."
"Fantasy is escapism, but wait... Why is this wrong? What are you escaping from, and where are you escaping to? Is the story opening windows or slamming doors? The British author G.K. Chesterton summarized the role of fantasy very well. He said its purpose was to take the everyday, commonplace world and lift it up and turn it around and show it to us from a different perspective, so that once again we see it for the first time and realize how marvelous it is. Fantasy - the ability to envisage the world in many different ways - is one of the skills that make us human."
"And I saw the sax line-up that he had behind him and I thought, I'm going to learn the saxophone. When I grow up, I'm going to play in his band. So I sort of persuaded my dad to get me a kind of a plastic saxophone on the hire purchase plan."
"Prison Break is so far-fetched, I had to make viewers believe that Michael is capable of making the impossible possible."
"Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of."
"Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven."
"Many manufacturers secretly question whether advertising really sells their product, but are vaguely afraid that their competitors might steal a march on them if they stopped."
"Do not stand in the middle, go to the right or to the left."
"Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. Not in entire forgetfulness, and not in utter nakedness, but trailing clouds of glory do we come."
"I found the offer of a knighthood something that I couldn't possibly accept. I found it to be somehow squalid, a knighthood. There's a relationship to government about knights."
"The truth is that most small businesses will not succeed and you need to be emotionally prepared for this."
"Everything I do feels like It's going to end up being in Radiohead."
"Kant and Hegel are interesting thinkers. But I am happy to insist that they are also terrible writers."
"Dealing with complexity is an inefficient and unnecessary waste of time, attention and mental energy. There is never any justification for things being complex when they could be simple."
"I haven't achieved as much as I should have done in my career."
"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by."
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