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You can go through life and make new friends every year - every month practically - but there was never any substitute…
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A life without stories would be no life at all. And stories bound us, did they not, one to another, the living…
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But don't we often lie to people we love, or not tell them things, precisely because we love them?
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The point about love, the essential point, was that we loved what we loved. We did not choose. We just loved.
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Do you realise that people die of boredom in London suburbs? It's the second biggest cause of death amongs the English in…
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Gracious acceptance is an art - an art which most never bother to cultivate. We think that we have to learn how…
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Most people want nothing to happen. That is the problem with governments these days. They want to do things all the time;…
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Writers obviously have to bear witness to the harsh face of the age.
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The telling of a story, like virtually everything in this life, was always made all the easier by a cup of tea.
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It was time to take the pumpkin out of the pot and eat it. In the final analysis, that was what solved…
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We all know that it is women who take the decisions, but we have to let men think that the decisions are…
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Be content with who you are and where you are, and do whatever you can do to bring to others such contentment,…
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When I was a kid, I thought I was the strongest man in the world. Then, the fastest runner and then the…
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There are two types of people in this world: one who opens a packet of biscuits, has one and puts the rest…
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In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.
— Albert Camus
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I still feel that French cooking is the most important in the world, one of the few that has rules. If you…
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Adventurer: he that goes to meet whatever may come. Well, that is what we all do in the world one way or…
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I want a different world. One where I don't wake up thinking I'm so lucky to be able to feed my daughter,…
— Emma Thompson
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To understand the world one must not be worrying about one's self.
— Albert Einstein
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While the vaccine discovery was progressive, the joy I felt at the prospect before me of being the instrument destined to take…
— Edward Jenner
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The aim of those who try to control thought is always the same. They find one single explanation of the world, one…
— Gilbert Highet
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You are the people who are shaping a better world. One of the secrets of inner peace is the practice of compassion.
— Dalai Lama
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One-tenth of the folks run the world. One-tenth watch them run it, and the other eighty percent don't know what the hell's…
— Jake Simmons, Jr.
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I don't know what she is now. A stranger, mostly. It's as if she has become a part of a different world,…
— Lois Lowry
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