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One Quotes by T.H. White
- I would recommend a solo flight to all prospective suicides. It tends to make clear the issue of whether one enjoys being alive or not.
- You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss…
- Life is such unutterable hell, solely because it is sometimes beautiful. If we could only be miserable all the time, if there could be no…
- We find that at present the human race is divided politically into one wise man, nine knaves, and ninety fools out of every hundred. That…
- If there is one thing I can't stand, it is stupidity. I always say that stupidity is the Sin against the Holy Ghost.
- War is like a fire. One man may start it, but it will spread all over. It is not about one thing in particular.
- There is one fairly good reason for fighting - and that is, if the other man starts it. You see, wars are a great wickedness,…
- They had a year of joy, twelve months of the strange heaven which the salmon know on beds of river shingle, under the gin-clear water.…
- The fate of this man or that man was less than a drop, although it was a sparkling one, in the great blue motion of…
- [Kay] was not at all an unpleasant person really, but clever, quick, proud, passionate and ambitious. He was one of those people who would be…
- The nice thing about the queen of Flanders' daughter, had been that she did not laugh at him. A lot of people laughed at you…
- Wars are never fought for one reason," he said. "They are fought for dozens of reasons, in a muddle.
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