Michael Frayn Quotes

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• I feel bad that I don't feel worse.
• To be absolutely honest, what I feel really bad about is that I don't feel worse. There's the ineffectual liberal's problem in a nutshell.
• We have one set of obligations to the world in general, and we have other sets, never to be reconciled, to our fellow-country men, to…
• Look at your hand. Its structure does not match the structure of assertions, the structure of facts. Your hand is continuous. Assertions and facts are…
• I can understand, he said, that many people, many perfectly ordinary people, have an interesting story to tell. No one's experience of life is valueless.
• Everything is as it was, I discover when I reach my destination, and everything has changed.
• For hundreds of pages the closely-reasoned arguments unroll, axioms and theorems interlock. And what remains with us in the end? A general sense that the…
• Even in the things that look most frivolous there has to be the threat of something quite painful to make the comedy work. I suppose…
• I've never written a fiction before about real people. . . . I read everything that I could find by people who met them and…
• And now everything has changed once again. The air of the Close each evening is full of bird song - I've never really noticed it…
• You can create a good impression on yourself by being right . . . but for creating a good impression on others there's nothing to…
• It's funny - there's nothing that stops you laughing like the sight of other people laughing about something else.
• When anyone says they often think something, it means they've just thought of it now.
• And this is a table ma'am. What in essence it consists of is a horizontal rectilinear plane surface maintained by four vertical columnar supports, which…
• A man sits in his car at the traffic lights, waiting for them to go green.
• You can create a good impression on yourself by being right, he realizes, but for creating a good impression on others there's nothing to beat…

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