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Quotes by English Authors
"The perception of the audience is the interesting part. If the audience doesn't hear what is going on, is it going on or not?"
"'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less.'"
"When I'm not thanked at all, I'm thanked enough, I've done my duty, and I've done no more."
"Many who think they are workers in politics are really merely tools."
"The apostles were moved, not so much by an intellectual apprehension, as by a spiritual illumination. They met men, and the need of those men whom they met cried aloud to them."
"It is hardly surprising that women concentrate on the way they look instead of what is in their minds since not much has been put in their minds to begin with."
"Words want to find chimes with each other, things want to connect."
"Men fail much oftener from want of perseverance than from want of talent."
"My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful."
"Besides alligators, the only animals to be feared are the poisonous serpents. These are certainly common enough in the forest, but no fatal accident happened during the whole time of my residence."
"If you don't believe in God, all you have to believe in is decency. Decency is very good. Better decent than indecent. But I don't think it's enough."
"For better or worse, I've been involved in the description of political conflict."
"My experience of ships is that on them one makes an interesting discovery about the world. One finds one can do without it completely."
"When you've finished a piece of work you've had a kind of love affair with it."
"We were in the same band, but we're two completely different people. People have asked me to make comparisons with our albums, and I can't, because there's no comparison. Her album's okay. I don't think she's the best singer on Earth, but she's okay."
"It's hard to blame someone because they simply don't have time."
"I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour of my death. O that I could have possession of them both in the same minute."
"Do you know, a horrible thing has happened to me. I have begun to doubt Tennyson."
"Our live set's become increasingly complex recently; we've been doing stuff that's been vastly too much information for most people to deal with and I think it's quite interesting watching how people behave in those situations, under those circumstances."
"True contentment is the power of getting of any situation all that there is in it."
"It is comparatively easy to become a writer; staying a writer, resisting formulaic work, generating one's own creativity - that's a much tougher matter."
"There is a shortage of teachers but the January 2001 schools census showed that teacher numbers were at their highest level than at any time since 1984 - and 11,000 higher than 1997."
"Any voices or fantasies, he lives with. Those are his everyday life things."
"Job plunges into a series of demands on and accusations of God which may be and indeed are epigrams of high intelligence, but are not noticeably patient."
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