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I ain't sleeping. I'm just taking a good look at the insides of my eyelids.
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Over emphatic negatives always suggest that what is being denied may be what is really being asserted.
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In an underdeveloped country don't drink the water. In a developed country don't breathe the air.
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Books admitted me to their world open-handedly, as people for their most part, did not. The life I lived in books was…
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Spells of acute loneliness are an essential part of travel. Loneliness makes things happen.
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Travel. It was an intransitive verb. It didn't involve any destinations. It was going to the going's sake, to be anywhere but…
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Seattle is this curious liberal island.
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Seattle is a liberal city, its politics not so much blue (in the American, not the British, sense) as deep ultramarine, and…
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I loved the audacity of that American principle which says. When life gets tainted or goes stale, junk it! Leave it behind!…
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In the city one clings to nostalgic and unreal signs of community, takes forced refuge in codes, badges and coteries; the city's…
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In rural areas the majority of the victims of violent crime know their assailants (indeed, are probably married to them); in cities,…
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The city has always been an embodiment of hope and a source of feeling guilt; a dream pursued, and found vain, wanting,…
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Daily meditation keeps me sane. I memorize prayers or poems that express my highest spiritual ideals, and quietly, word for word, go…
— Ashley Judd
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I was born in Norwich in 1946, and educated in England, Zimbabwe, and Australia, before my family settled in North Wales.
— Philip Pullman
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The only thing Norwich didn't get was the goal that they finally got
— Jimmy Greaves
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Chris Hughton has been sacked by Norwich. Now? With 5 games to go? Utterly bonkers!
— Gary Lineker
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We do not want to be giving quality sides such as Southampton, Palace, Norwich and the rest eight or nine points start…
— Paul Ince
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Tony Cottee once played in all four divisions in one season. Cottee started 2000-01 at Leicester City, where he made a couple…
— Phil Cornwell
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Supporting the English cricket team is like supporting a second division football team. I support Norwich City football team and when they…
— Stephen Fry
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The only real river I knew was hardly more than a brook. It spilled through a tumbledown mill at the bottom of…
— Jonathan Raban
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A man got up [after one of Huxley's 'sermons'] and said 'they had never heard anything like that in Norwich before'. Never…
— Adrian Desmond
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Two thousand years ago, the Holy family had a ramble from Nazareth to Bethlehem - in much the same way as I'm…
— Steve Coogan
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We must go to such towns as Bristol, York, and Norwich.
— George Edmund Street
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