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One Quotes by John Mortimer
- I'd been told of all the things you're meant to feel when your father dies. Sudden freedom, growing up, the end of dependence, the step…
- Dying is a matter of slapstick and pratfalls. The ageing process is not gradual or gentle. It rushes up, pushes you over and runs off…
- I found criminal clients easy and matrimonial clients hard. Matrimonial clients hate each other so much and use their children to hurt each other in…
- Murderers have usually killed the one person in the world that was bugging them and they're usually quite peaceful and agreeable.
- Writing about the indignities of old age: the daunting stairway to the restaurant restroom, the benefits of a wheelchair in airports and its disadvantages at…
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- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- Trust is the one most important base on which the beautiful building of strong friendship can be built. — Anurag Prakash Ray
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate… — Paul Auster
- Grief makes one hour ten. — William Shakespeare
- A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one. — Aristotle