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Don't hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take…
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That's the public-school system all over. They may kick you out, but they never let you down.
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She had heard someone say something about an Independent Labour Party, and was furious that she had not been asked.
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Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography.
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Of the many smells of Athens two seem to me the most characteristic - that of garlic, bold and deadly like acetylene…
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One can write, think and pray exclusively of others; dreams are all egocentric.
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If we can't stamp out literature in the country, we can at least stop its being brought in from outside.
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I haven't been to sleep for over a year. That's why I go to bed early. One needs more rest if one…
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I [had] added another small piece to the pages of the atlas that were real to me.
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Most writers in the course of their careers become thick-skinned and learn to accept vituperation, which in any other profession would be…
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Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.
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Port is not for the very young, the vain and the active. It is the comfort of age and the companion of…
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When I was able to go to school in my early years, my third grade teacher, Ms. Harris, convinced me that one…
— John Henrik Clarke
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I have no desire to go in for tyranny or to play the part of King Charles. I hate tyranny in any…
— Charles Edison
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The irony about Charles II is not that he came to the throne because England needed a successor to Charles I, but…
— Simon Schama
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The fate of Charles I has only made kings more subtle, not more just.
— Thomas Paine
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I'm not a star. I'll never be a Frank Sinatra or Elvis Presley or a Ray Charles. I'm just an imitator, man.…
— Jaco Pastorius
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In return for financial support will advocate admission of Jews to England; This however impossible while Charles living. Charles cannot be executed…
— Oliver Cromwell
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I was a window dresser for Burton's once. What really put me off was the area manager coming round and saying, Charles,…
— Charles Dance
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Dearest Charles-- I found a box of this paper at the back of a bureau so I must write to you as…
— Evelyn Waugh
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You're shagging a woman who can turn into a dragon? Blast you, Charles, I am sick with envy!
— Jeaniene Frost
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Anna: “I thought Indians built fires with fiction.” Charles: “I can do that, but I'd like to eat sometime in the next…
— Patricia Briggs
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