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Quotes by English Authors
"To be sympathetic without discrimination is so very debilitating."
"People want the right to die at a time of their own choosing. Too many families have watched helplessly as a relative dies slowly, longing for death."
"No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning."
"Common sense varies among the young, as among the old."
"Oxford is the most dangerous place to which a young man can be sent."
"When affection only speaks, truth is not always there."
"Gradually, he fell into that deep tranquil sleep which ease from recent suffering alone imparts; that calm and peaceful rest which it is pain to wake from. Who, if this were death, would be roused again to all the struggles and turmoils of life; to all its cares for the present; its anxieties for the future; more than all, its weary recollections of the past!"
"We are at last on the high lands of Mexico, the districts which at least three different races have chosen to settle in, neglecting the fertile country below."
"When I was starting out, young actresses had the studio system to protect them. Now you have a host of sharks, from your agent to your publicist to your lawyer."
"Well one of the times I did a stunt was in the devil's snare room and they lifted me up on a harness and a safety rope really, really high, and they just dropped me down into the devil's snare."
"They wanted to hear about the sex, of course. But not the rest; no one wanted to hear the rest."
"There are a lot of stuff on the record that I am thinking is generic but actually it is just as good as everybody else who is putting stuff out at the time."
"We were totally unprepared for such a large quantity of visitors, and in view of the preservation of the antiquities they being very crowded and in poor preservation, we were obliged to refuse admission until some preparation was made to safeguard the objects."
"An atmosphere of beliefs and conceptions has been formed by the labours and struggles of our forefathers, which enables us to breathe amid the various and complex circumstances of our life."
"Hong Kong has created one of the most successful societies on Earth."
"Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth."
"My vocal ability is very limited, but I'm fortunate in that I can write the songs around my vocal limitations."
"I don't mind how much my Ministers talk, so long as they do what I say."
"Confidence is at the root of so many attractive qualities, a sense of humor, a sense of style, a willingness to be who you are no matter what anyone else might think or say and it's true, I do have a certain fondness for women that have dark hair."
"All labour is directed towards producing some effect."
"All things by immortal power. Near of far, to each other linked are, that thou canst not stir a flower without troubling of a star."
"The Ball no question makes of Ayes and Noes, But Here or There as strikes the Player goes."
"It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back."
"Plurality should not be posited without necessity."
"The danger to society is not merely that it should believe wrong things, though that is great enough; but that it should become credulous, and lose the habit of testing things and inquiring into them; for then it must sink back into savagery."
"In New York, you couldn't wish for a nicer audience, or in L.A., Chicago, Boston. But when you get into secondary markets, they don't have a clue."
"It's amazing the clarity that comes with psychotic jealousy."
"I think you should take your job seriously, but not yourself - that is the best combination."
"No Roman ever was able to say, 'I dined last night with the Borgias'."
"Now, if King Crimson accepts responsibility for innovating its own tradition, you can't accept responsibility for the audience. And there is an enormous tangible weight of expectation, which comes from an audience attending a King Crimson concert."
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