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Quotes by English Authors
"We had so much fun in Ghana and they are really lovely people."
"I was fortunate as a young actor, to go straight to the RSC, where I learned that being an actor can bring with it wonderful responsibilities."
"I can prove anything by statistics except the truth."
"No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now."
"So in process of four or five years the emperor called me, as divers times he had done before."
"Could it be that all those reports coming from our own intelligence that Bush ignored was right all along? Could it be that the UN was right all along?"
"Young readers have to be entertained. No child reads fiction because they think it's going to make them a better person."
"The only reason I made a commercial for American Express was to pay for my American Express bill."
"I know this much: that there is objective time, but also subjective time, the kind you wear on the inside of your wrist, next to where the pulse lies. And this personal time, which is the true time, is measured in your relationship to memory."
"Let's drink to the spirit of gallantry and courage that made a strange Heaven out of unbelievable Hell, and let's drink to the hope that one day this country of ours, which we love so much, will find dignity and greatness and peace again."
"SF is the literature of the theoretically possible, and F is the literature of the impossible."
"You never find an Englishman among the under-dogs except in England, of course."
"He who let's the world, or his own portion of it, choose his plan of life for him, has no need of any other faculty than the ape-like one of imitation."
"For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change."
"I like to employ a form of repetition, in which the same elements recur but in different and unexpected ways. rather than being discarded as soon as they are understood or passed over."
"People think they know you. They know the things about you that you have forgotten."
"When dad told me Mr Steptoe had passed away, I broke down."
"The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth."
"Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small beasts."
"I was determined that no British government should be brought down by the action of two tarts."
"To make a rock'n'roll record, technology is the least important thing."
"Love is staying up all night with a sick child - or a healthy adult."
"We are so overwhelmed with quantities of books, that we hardly realize any more that a book can be valuable, valuable like a jewel, or a lovely picture, into which you can look deeper and deeper and get a more profound experience very time. It is far, far better to read one book six times, at intervals, than to read six several books."
"There is an insolence which none but those who themselves deserve contempt can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear."
"It's wonderful to have the most important thing in the world there first thing in the morning. And especially in this business, where the opportunity to think everything is about you is there every day, now I really know that it isn't all about me."
"In matters of conscience, first thoughts are best. In matters of prudence, last thoughts are best."
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