Backwards Quote by Arthur Smith

“Don Quixote's 'Delusions' is an excellent read - far better than my own forthcoming travel book, 'Walking Backwards Across Tuscany.'”

Arthur Smith

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Sometimes it's good to do something that you've never done before, so yesterday, I went out to buy Elton John's new album.

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I find it hilarious that there are academics who try to analyse chemical changes in the brains of students while exposing them to gags.

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Sometimes it's bad to do something you've never done before.

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My sister-in-law believes that few narratives are so tightly constructed that you can't skip boring bits and still keep abreast of what's going on.

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I'm just always looking forwards. I spend very little time, looking backwards.

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I wear T-shirts and backwards hats and buy my shoes at Payless!

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A historian is not always a prophet facing backwards, but a journalist is always someone who afterwards knew everything beforehand.

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Why don't you just imagine it never happened..??

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In the spiritual life, he who does not advance goes backwards.

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Now, success is not the result of making money; making money is the result of success - and success is in direct proportion to…

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Can anyone be so foolish as to believe that there are men whose feet are higher than their heads, or places where things may…

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I took a little break - I was coming back to work and the last thing I was going to do was take a…

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Only a fool walks into the future backwards.

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We have different expectations for different groups of people. We tend to modulate the degree with which we're forgiving or punitive depending on how…

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