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Michael Frayn has 16 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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I feel bad that I don't feel worse.
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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…
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We have one set of obligations to the world in general, and we have other sets, never to be reconciled, to our…
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Look at your hand. Its structure does not match the structure of assertions, the structure of facts. Your hand is continuous. Assertions…
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I can understand, he said, that many people, many perfectly ordinary people, have an interesting story to tell. No one's experience of…
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Everything is as it was, I discover when I reach my destination, and everything has changed.
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For hundreds of pages the closely-reasoned arguments unroll, axioms and theorems interlock. And what remains with us in the end? A general…
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Even in the things that look most frivolous there has to be the threat of something quite painful to make the comedy…
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I've never written a fiction before about real people. . . . I read everything that I could find by people who…
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And now everything has changed once again. The air of the Close each evening is full of bird song - I've never…
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You can create a good impression on yourself by being right . . . but for creating a good impression on others…
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It's funny - there's nothing that stops you laughing like the sight of other people laughing about something else.
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It was a heavenly summer, the summer in which France fell and the British Expeditionary Force was evacuated from Dunkirk. Leaves were…
— Eva Ibbotson
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Everybody loves birdsong. It's a human need... the sound of birds gives a deep, if sometimes almost unnoticed, pleasure
— Simon Barnes
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Silent Summer - a never-ending heat wave, devoid of birdsong, insect hum, and all the weird and wonderful living noises that subconsciously…
— Mark Lynas
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True solitude is a din of birdsong, seething leaves, whirling colors, or a clamor of tracks in the snow.
— Edward Hoagland
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Birdsong brings relief to my longing. I am just as ecstatic as they are, but with nothing to say.
— Rumi
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God was something I did not understand the way kids who went to church did. They said God was a man in…
— Melissa Coleman
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Ask the world to reveal its quietude- not the silence of machines when they are still, but the true quiet by which…
— Wendell Berry
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Bring awareness to the many subtle sounds of nature - The rustling of leaves in the wind, Raindrops falling, The humming of…
— Eckhart Tolle
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Did you not look upon the world this morning and imagine it as the boy might see it? And did you not…
— Jamie O'Neill
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A birdsong can even, for a moment, make the whole world into a sky within us, because we feel that the bird…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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I woke early like a condemned man to the naivety of birdsong.
— Nick Drake
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The crack of the bat, the sound of baseballs thumping into gloves, the infield chatter are like birdsong to the baseball starved.
— W. P. Kinsella
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