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Quotes by English Authors
"Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure."
"Mr. Polly went into the National School at six and he left the private school at fourteen, and by that time his mind was in much the same state that you would be in, dear reader, if you were operated upon for appendicitis by a well-meaning, boldly enterprising, but rather over-worked and under-paid butcher boy, who was superseded towards the climax of the operation by a left-handed clerk of high principles but intemperate habits,-that is to say, it was in a thorough mess."
"When the poet makes his perfect selection of a word, he is endowing the word with life."
"The core " and perhaps unexpected " thing that books do for us is simplify. It sounds odd, because we think of literature as sophisticated. But there are powerful ways in which books organise, and clarify our concerns " and in this sense simplify."
"There was a small boy of Quebec Who was buried in snow to the neck: When they said 'Are you friz?' He replied 'Yes I is - But we don't call this cold in Quebec!'"
"There needs to be radical development in equality law to create the environment to allow women to stay in work."
"That's one of the great things about poetry; one realises that one does one's little turn - that you're just part of the great crop, as it were."
"Most of the appearance of mirth in the world is not mirth, it is art. The wounded spirit is not seen, but walks under a disguise."
"Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity."
"I was desperate really for people not to accuse me of coldness. It was taboo."
"I wanted to make a classical piece that was actually designed to be a CD, not designed for performance."
"The streets looked small, of course. The streets that we have only seen as children always do I believe when we go back to them."
"Literature delivers tidings of the world within and the world without."
"All the sounds of man, the bleating of sheep, the cries of birds, the hum of insects, the stir that makes the background of our lives - all that was over."
"You have to be careful not to let your fear stop you doing things. It's very exciting to test yourself."
"That which has not a real excellency and value in it self, entertains no longer than the giddy Humour which recommended it to us holds."
"I didn't get at first put into a rehab facility; I got put in a adolescent psychiatric unit for my detox."
"Even though the Bush campaign ad tells you that Afghanistan is a new democracy at the Olympics because of Bush's efforts, Afghanistan hasn't actually had an election."
"The cultured man is an artist, an artist in humanity."
"How much a dunce that has been sent to roam, excels a dunce that has been kept at home."
"Esso has been the main one in America spreading the disinformation that there is no global warming problem."
"My little cousin tells me I look like Magneto so I guess that's who I should probably play."
"I have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered."
"I'll never get used to living without Mo, but the painful things that surround what happened to him aren't so painful any more-not so raw or so new."
"Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor."
"For me, disability is a way of getting some extremity, some kind of very difficult situation, that throws an interesting light on people."
"In my career as an actor, there is a catchphrase that Scofield always says often in regards to his brother, 'Have a little faith.' In my own career as an actor, there were times when I was the only one who believed in myself in the face of the odds."
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