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Quotes by English Authors
"The best thing I know between France and England is the sea."
"None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them."
"Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them."
"That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot come again."
"A nice pop star would do you nice on one of those deserted islands."
"To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float."
"No one could be more happy than a man who has never known affliction."
"The headline is the 'ticket on the meat.' Use it to flag down readers who are prospects for the kind of product you are advertising."
"You can sometimes learn more working with less talented people, because you learn to survive."
"It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a young fool. But the young fool has first to grow up to be an old fool to realize what a damn fool he was when he was a young fool."
"The first duty of an historian is to be on guard against his own sympathies."
"What is truth? Truth doesn't really exist. Who is going to judge whether my experience of an incident is more valid than yours? No one can be trusted to be the judge of that."
"Sleepiness seemed to be creeping out of the ground and up their legs, and falling softly out of the air upon theirheads and eyes."
"The family, that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor in our innermost hearts never quite wish to."
"I never had teenage years. I guess because I was seen to be more adult than anybody around me."
"In 1958, we decided to go to Australia. We were there for six months, and all the shows went well."
"Depart from discretion when it interferes with duty."
"The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means."
"To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal."
"A loud noise at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other."
"Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate it; a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise."
"The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper."
"Perseverance is an active principle, and cannot continue to operate but under the influence of desire."
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