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Quotes by Scottish Authors
"I started singing in the bathroom. Nothing was coming out. It was ghastly."
"If there be no enemy there's no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown."
"The experience and behavior that gets labeled schizophrenic is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation."
"Whenever a snowflake leaves the sky, it turns and turns to say Good-by!"
"To some extent I happily don't know what I'm doing. I feel that it's an artist's responsibility to trust that."
"That the sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it will rise."
"Let us unite on the safe and sure ground of fact and experiment, and we can never err; yet better, we can never differ."
"But you'd have a job to find many of my poems which would seem to be very influenced by a particular person."
"A wonderful emotion to get things moving when one is stuck is anger. It was anger more than anything else that had set me off, roused me into productivity and creativity."
"Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other."
"The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst."
"It seems to me that Islam and Christianity and Judaism all have the same god, and he's telling them all different things."
"As long as you do the best work that you can and not make it bland... because you're going down a lane that is trying to make everybody happy. You have to take an angle on these things."
"Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes."
"I only keep books that I like very much. Otherwise I'd throw them out."
"I didn't break into comics to write fairytales or crime comics."
"The numbers may be said to rule the whole world of quantity, and the four rules of arithmetic may be regarded as the complete equipment of the mathematician."
"So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend."
"It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics."
"My biggest excuse to others and myself was that I had writer's block, as if it was some kind of illness."
"I wish I were with some of the wild people that run in the woods, and know nothing about accomplishments!"
"Happiness... consists in giving, and in serving others."
"The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope."
"Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings."
"Millions of hells of sinners cannot come near to exhaust infinite grace."
"Statues and pictures and verse may be grand, But they are not the Life for which they stand."
"I feel it's a person's duty to participate in the governing of the country in which he lives."
"If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?"
"People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices."
"When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord's choicest wines."
"I've done nudity in lots of things before. It's something that's never particularly bothered me."
"It's important, that spirit of youth, and when you're 16 that can get you kickstarted."
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