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Biographies are no longer written to explain or explore the greatness of the great. They redress balances, explore secret weaknesses, demolish legends.
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I think the virtue I prize above all others is curiosity. If you look really hard at almost anybody, and try to…
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Books that change you, even later in life, give you a kind of electrical shock as the world takes a different shape.
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I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the Second World War.
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I don't understand why, in my work, writing is always so dangerous. It's very destructive. People who write books are destroyers.
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I have a dreadful fear that the more you try to prevent revealing the self, the more you do.
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I'm not very interested in myself. I do have a deep moral belief that you should always look out at other things…
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In England, everyone believes if you think, then you don't feel. But all my novels are about joining together thinking and feeling.
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In my mind's eye, Shakespeare is a huge, hot sea-beast, with fire in his veins and ice on his claws and inscrutable…
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Yet the evil still increased, and, like the parasite of barnacles on a ship, if it did not destroy the structure, it…
— William Banting
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To those who have no personal experience of this revolutionary aspect of Christian truth, but who see only the outer crust of…
— Thomas Merton
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Ah, whimsical. It's terrible the way words get attached to you like barnacles. As is what I do is acting on a…
— Michael Leunig
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But if we know that the people of God are first a fellowship of sinners, we are freed to hear the unconditional…
— Richard J. Foster
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I think the Republican party should be placed in drydock and have the barnacles scraped off its bottom.
— Tallulah Bankhead
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No naturalist has devoted more painstaking attention to the structure of the barnacles than Mr. Darwin.
— Richard Owen
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Professors of literature collect books the way a ship collects barnacles, without seeming effort.
— Carolyn Heilbrun
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