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Quotes by English Authors
"I'm full of fears and I do my best to avoid difficulties and any kind of complications. I like everything around me to be clear as crystal and completely calm."
"I decided that the only way there would be a future was to start to cut back."
"I don't think I ever worked harder at any match during my career to get runs as I did then, nor did I ever have to face in one game such consistently fast bowlers as the Australian pair, Gregory and McDonald."
"Friendship's the wine of life: but friendship new... is neither strong nor pure."
"But you have to give your whole life to a cello. When I realized that, I went back to the guitar and just turned the volume up a bit louder."
"I was impressed by Hendrix. Not so much by his playing, as his attitude - he wasn't a great player, but everything else about him was brilliant."
"The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future."
"Sometimes, as a comedian, a line will come to you, that is so beautiful, so perfect, that you think: I did not create this line. This line belongs to all of us. Surely this is a line of God."
"There are some achievements which are never done in the presence of those who hear of them. Catching salmon is one, and working all night is another."
"Some have too much, yet still do crave; I little have, and seek no more. They are but poor, though much they have, And I am rich with little store."
"The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation."
"The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above."
"I never found anyone who was good enough, who I could trust enough."
"We go on a lot in this country about offences being caused by drugs. The truth is just as many offences are caused by drink. And that should be taken into account."
"Compared even to the development of the phone or TV, the Web developed very quickly."
"There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men."
"Pain and sorrow and misery have a right to our assistance: compassion puts us in mind of the debt, and that we owe it to ourselves as well as to the distressed."
"If you think about Shakespeare, you remember Richard III and Macbeth before you remember Ferdinand, whose role is just to fall in love and be a bit of a wimp. I love the baddies. More important, though, is making the baddies somehow, weirdly, understood."
"The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well."
"In and of itself, keeping the country safe for business is not a bad thing."
"A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent."
"The sexiest part of the body is the eyes. That's what I believe."
"After taking my B.A. degree in 1939 I remained at the University for a further year to take an advanced course in Biochemistry, and surprised myself and my teachers by obtaining a first class examination result."
"A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although... he may be permitted to be an intellectual."
"This at least should be a rule through the letter-writing world: that no angry letter be posted till four-and-twenty hours will have elapsed since it was written."
"Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy."
"If Hori were to die, I should not forget! Hori is a song in my heart for ever... That means-that there is no more death..."
"Intelligent or not, we all make mistakes and perhaps the intelligent mistakes are the worst, because so much careful thought has gone into them."
"Language, after all, is only the use of symbols, and Art also can only affect us through symbols."
"Where the bright seraphim in burning rowTheir loud uplifted angel trumpets blow."
"The cottage garden; most for use designed, Yet not of beauty destitute."
"I'm trying to learn to smoke, which is rather weird when everyone is trying to stop. I'm not a smoker. But my character only smokes as an affectation."
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