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Everything really desirable has come about because of, or in spite of, wine!
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Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist.
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Shyness has laws you can only give yourself; tragically to those who least understand.
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No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat.
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Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by…
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It is not peace we seek but meaning.
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The whole Mediterranean, the sculpture, the palm, the gold beads, the bearded heroes, the wine, the ideas, the ships, the moonlight, the…
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Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment: only there does its satisfaction lie.
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It's unthinkable not to love -you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.
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The national characteristics... the restless metaphysical curiosity, the tenderness of good living and the passionate individualism. This is the invisible constant in…
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Now stiff on a pillar with a phallic air nelson stylites in Trafalgar square reminds the British what once they were.
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Our inventions mirror our secret wishes.
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An ineffably holy God, who has the utmost abhorrence of sin, was never invented by any of Adam's descendents.
— Arthur W. Pink
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Fossil bones and footsteps and ruined homes are the solid facts of history, but the surest hints, the most enduring signs, lie…
— Unknown Author
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The most prudent thing any intelligent animal can do, if it would prefer its descendents not to spend a lot of time…
— Terry Pratchett
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Even when I'm old and grey I'll probably be cruising around and bunny-hopping and stuff. In the words of the Descendents, "I…
— Matt Skiba
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Memories are their own descendents masquerading as the ancestors of the present.
— David Mitchell
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…I once found a list of diseases as yet unclassified by medical science, and among these there occurred the word Islomania, which…
— Lawrence Durrell
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We are evolutionary descendents of this marvellous panoply of life. And what that says unequivocally is we have an utter total obligation…
— Leroy Hood
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One of the best things people could do for their descendents would be to sharply limit the number of them.
— Olin Miller
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Brandon McCaw did a 500 page essay based on the real founders of Rome were a tribe called the Latins, descendents of…
— Brandon McCaw
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