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Quotes by English Authors
"Monty Python crowd; half of them came from Cambridge, and half of them came from Oxford. But, there seems to be this jewel, this sort of two headed tradition of doing comedy, of doing sketches, and that kind of thing."
"One fine day I discovered that more complex plays really have to be directed."
"To appreciate life's small moments, it helps to have a sense the whole can never be made perfect."
"The 'interactive fiction' format hasn't changed in any fundamental way since the early 1970s, in the same way that the format of the novel hasn't since 1700."
"To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart."
"Same as you, Arthur. I hitched a ride. After all, with a degree in maths and another in astrophysics it was either that or back to the dole queue on Monday. Sorry I missed the Wednesday lunch date, but I was in a black hole all morning."
"If you don't fix latent failures in your system, you're asking for trouble."
"If you are in the job for glamour, you're in for the shock of your life. The media is a huge shark pool."
"Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command."
"Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression."
"The serpent if it wants to become the dragon must eat itself."
"One was never taught how to begin at drama school. But all it required was one intake of breath."
"I grew up in Cambridge in England, and my love of mathematics dates from those early childhood days."
"I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind."
"In 1792, my Sister told me, I was growing out of my senses."
"We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed."
"To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palms of your hand and eternity in an hour."
"If you don't want me to attend the patient I'll go.''But she can't see a doctor now.''Why not?''She isn't well."
"So all the rest is O.K., but fame is a hollow ground, isn't it? It's an empty kind of thing."
"My experience in Amsterdam is that cyclists ride where the hell they like and aim in a state of rage at all pedestrians while ringing their bell loudly, the concept of avoiding people being foreign to them."
"I do not regard advertising as entertainment or an art form, but as a medium of information."
"Every scholar, I presume, is not, necessarily, a man of sense."
"Float beyond the world of trees. Out into the whispering breeze, past the rushes, past the weeds, past the marsh's waving reeds."
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