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Quotes by English Authors
"In 1958, we decided to go to Australia. We were there for six months, and all the shows went well."
"To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal."
"The analysis of variance is not a mathematical theorem, but rather a convenient method of arranging the arithmetic."
"By one Spirit we are all baptised into one body."
"The interior of Mexico consists of a mass of volcanic rocks, thrust up to a great height above the sea-level."
"Let them call it mischief: When it is past and prospered t'will be virtue."
"All I know for certain is that reading is of the most intense importance to me; if I were not able to read, to revisit old favorites and experiment with names new to me, I would be starved - probably too starved to go on writing myself."
"There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds."
"It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth."
"A baby is a loud noise at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other."
"That was the problem with the 'celibate' word because they don't consider for a moment that you'd rather not be, but you just are. I was never a sexual person."
"Nothing is so useless as a general maxim."
"When I was 17 I sent a picture up to an agency, and within a week I was in The Sun five days in a row."
"If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older."
"I think the rock'n'roll myth of living on the edge is a pile of crap."
"To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving."
"Vice came in always at the door of necessity, not at the door of inclination."
"What changed our lives forever was when Malcolm had the idea to sell rock 'n roll records to trendy customers."
"The project which we developed, however, was for a sound piece and I was initially curious that a sculptor should be interested in working with a musician, especially on a project for radio."
"The actual course is called fishery studies, and you study general aquatics and fishery management."
"A common misperception of me is... that I am a tough, rough northerner, which I suppose I am really. But I'm pretty mild-mannered most of the time. It's the parts that you play I guess. I don't mind it. I'm not a tough guy. I'd like to act as a fair, easy-going, kind man at some point."
"A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it."
"If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it 'Chuck Berry'."
"There's nothing glorious in dying. Anyone can do it."
"Wealth is not an absolute. It is relative to desire. Every time we yearn for something we cannot afford, we grow poorer, whatever our resources. And every time we feel satisfied with what we have, we can be counted as rich, however little we may actually possess."
"My father was a stone mason, and a talented amateur pianist and vocalist."
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