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Michael Frayn has 16 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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I feel bad that I don't feel worse.
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To be absolutely honest, what I feel really bad about is that I don't feel worse. There's the ineffectual liberal's problem in…
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We have one set of obligations to the world in general, and we have other sets, never to be reconciled, to our…
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Look at your hand. Its structure does not match the structure of assertions, the structure of facts. Your hand is continuous. Assertions…
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I can understand, he said, that many people, many perfectly ordinary people, have an interesting story to tell. No one's experience of…
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Everything is as it was, I discover when I reach my destination, and everything has changed.
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For hundreds of pages the closely-reasoned arguments unroll, axioms and theorems interlock. And what remains with us in the end? A general…
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Even in the things that look most frivolous there has to be the threat of something quite painful to make the comedy…
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I've never written a fiction before about real people. . . . I read everything that I could find by people who…
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And now everything has changed once again. The air of the Close each evening is full of bird song - I've never…
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You can create a good impression on yourself by being right . . . but for creating a good impression on others…
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It's funny - there's nothing that stops you laughing like the sight of other people laughing about something else.
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But however secure and well-regulated civilized life may become, bacteria, Protozoa, viruses, infected fleas, lice, ticks, mosquitoes, and bedbugs will always lurk…
— Hans Zinsser
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While the nature of Texas fever is by no means made clear as yet, we are able to affirm that ticks can…
— Theobald Smith
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So the crew fly on with no thought that they are in motion. Like night over the sea, they are very far…
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Critics are like ticks on a dog or tits on a motor: ornamental but dysfunctional.
— Edward Abbey
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Politics /n/: from 'poly ticks', short for 'many small bloodsucking insects'.
— Henry Spencer
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Then the children went to bed, or at least went upstairs, and the men joined the women for a cigarette on the…
— Amy Hempel
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I want to build a clock that ticks once a year. The century hand advances once every one hundred years, and the…
— Danny Hillis
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I don't want to be daft and say I had some spiritual awakening or something, but I really did come of age…
— Melanie Chisholm
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We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the…
— Max Lerner
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Poly means more than one, and ticks are bloodsucking parasites.
— Kinky Friedman
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I wonder if Dracula ever has ticks.
— Jack Handey
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The easy way is efficacious and speedy, the hard way arduous and long. But, as the clock ticks, the easy way becomes…
— Colonel Sanders
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