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- When a man is down on his luck he seems to consume all he can get of coffee and doughnuts.
- It is those pent-up, craving children who make all the wars and all the horrors and all the art and all the beauty and discovery…
- In India it is regarded as a good idea to dart in front of an oncoming car, for the car is sure to kill the…
- Book lovers are thought by unbookish people to be gentle and unworldly, and perhaps a few of them are so. But there are others who…
- Female beauty in an important Minor Sacrament which cannot be received too often; I am no sure at all that the neglect of it does…
- Tristan and Isolde were lucky to die when they did. They'd have been sick of all that rubbish in a year.
- They're all so highly educated, you know. Education is a great shield against experience. It offers so much, ready-made and all from the best shops,…
- It is odd how all men develop the notion, as they grow older, that their mothers were wonderful cooks. I have yet to meet a…
- Women say . . . that if men had to have babies there would soon be no babies in the world. . . . I…
- That was what stuck in the craws of all the good women of Deptford: Mrs Dempster had not been raped, as a decent woman would…
- Secrets are the blood of life. Every big thing is a secret, even when you know it, because you never know all of it. If…
- Only a fool expects to be happy all the time.
- Inactivity and deprivation of all accustomed stimulus is not rest; it is a preparation for the tomb
- All art is holy. Not that it is all long-faced and miserable; it can be wild and wooly. But if it transforms you, it is…
- Do not suppose, however, that I intend to urge a diet of classics on anybody. I have seen such diets at work. I have known…
- If I had my way books would not be written in English but in an exceedingly difficult secret language.... This plan would have the advantage…
- Everything matters. The Universe is approximately fifteen billion years old, and I swear that in all that time, nothing has ever happened that has not…
- Conversation in its true meaning isn't all wagging the tongue; sometimes it is a deeply shared silence.
- This is one of the cruelties of the theatre of life; we all think of ourselves as stars and rarely recognize it when we are…
- The egotist is all surface; underneath is a pulpy mess and a lot of self-doubt. But the egoist may be yielding and even deferential in…
- You're all mad for words. Words are just farts from a lot of fools who have swallowed too many books. Give me things!
- All real fantasy is serious. Only faked fantasy is not serious. That is why it is so wrong to impose faked fantasy on children....
- All mothers think their children are oaks, but the world never lacks for cabbages.
- If I had my way books would not be written in English, but in an exceedingly difficult secret language that only skilled professional readers and…
- Female beauty is an important Minor Sacrament which cannot be received too often; I am not at all sure that neglect of it does not…
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