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Quotes by English Authors
"We've got the children so we have to deal with each other because we have to deal with children's problems, you know, and our own problems. But some days it's fine, and then some days we just are at each other's throat."
"The man who comes back through the Door in the Wall will never be quite the same as the man who went out. He will be wiser but less sure, happier but less self-satisfied, humbler in acknowledging his ignorance yet better equipped to understand the relationship of words to things, of systematic reasoning to the unfathomable mystery which it tries, forever vainly, to comprehend."
"The Body Shop Foundation is run by our staff and supports social activism and environmental activism. We don't tend to support big agencies."
"I'm generally more and more in my comfort zone in the wild."
"All have their worth and each contributes to the worth of the others."
"I definitely did look up to John. We all looked up to John. He was older and he was very much the leader; he was the quickest wit and the smartest."
"Living in a tower, however secure it may feel, is hardly a social attribute."
"Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth."
"I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon."
"The totality of a record is usually beyond ones ability to imagine when you start working on it, but the component parts are, usually, fairly clear one way or another."
"Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery."
"For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are slow to acknowledge that they have changed, even for the better."
"There are no whole truths: all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays to the devil."
"He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other."
"I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns."
"Look at it like this, it's not that we're making life, we're simply giving life a place to live."
"I think it's also the case that I'm not as widely travelled, or as well-educated in history, as most of the other novelists I meet: so I have to write about my own country, at the present time, because it's more or less all I know about!"
"I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach."
"There was a point to this story, but it has temporarily escaped the chronicler's mind."
"With The Simpsons you can go back to work with a keen heart."
"Such is life and life is such and after all it isn't much. First a cradle. Then a hearse. It might have been better, but it could have been worse."
"The city of London, within the walls, occupies a space of only 370 acres, and is but the hundred and fortieth part of the extent covered by the whole metropolis."
"Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment."
"Television, although It's in steep decline, still occasionally gives voices to people who don't have voices."
"I challenge record companies to show me evidence of a single penny they've lost due to Napster."
"What goes down on film is different to what you see with the naked eye."
"History isn't like that. History unravels gently, like an old sweater. It has been patched and darned many times, reknitted to suit different people, shoved in a box under the sink of censorship to be cut up for the dusters of propaganda, yet it always - eventually - manages to spring back into its old familar shape. History has a habit of changing the people who think they are changing it. History always has a few tricks up its frayed sleeve. It's been around a long time."
"Creeds and castes, and all forms of intellectual and emotional grouping, belong to the past."
"I suppose in London they all drink from the same watering holes."
"In No. 1 of this street the cholera first appeared seventeen years ago, and spread up it with fearful virulence; but this year it appeared at the opposite end, and ran down it with like severity."
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