Patrick O'Brian Quotes
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... it has always seemed to me that books are the supreme decorations of a room
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Since I grew up, I have never deliberately used any technique at all other than the physical shaping of my tale so that it more…
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My wife and I have spent most of our lives in France, and we are both pretty well bilingual, my wife more purely than I,…
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A freewheeling mind can conceive a virtually infinite number of sequences, but just how that mind picks out and stores those that may perhaps be…
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I have never written for an audience. On the other hand I do not write merely to please myself.
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I very much dislike being interviewed by the kind of journalist who tries to dig into your private life.
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I have 60 years of reading to draw upon: naval memoirs, dispatches, the Naval Chronicles, family letters.
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In a day when, if you insulted a man it might cost you your life, you were probably more civil.
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Take a newspaper account of Waterloo or Trafalgar, with all the small advertisements: it seems much more real than reading about it in a history…
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Likings arise when one has no earthly reason for liking - the most wildly improbable marriages and uncommon friendship.
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