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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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We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last we destroy them out discretion, and so disappears the most…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day!
— John Milton
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One of the strangest catastrophes that is in any history. A great king, with strong armies and mighty fleets, a great treasure…
— Gilbert Burnet
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None of us are entirely well, and none of us are irrecoverably sick.
— Mark Vonnegut
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The principles of a free constitution are irrecoverably lost, when the legislative power is nominated by the executive.
— Edward Gibbon
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The langour of Youth - how unique and quintessential it is! How quickly, how irrecoverably, lost! The zest, the generous affections, the…
— Evelyn Waugh
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Days, months, years fly away, and irrecoverably sink in the abyss of time.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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Acting in theatre or television or screen is only for the irrecoverably diseased, those so smitten with the need that there is…
— Michael Shurtleff
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