"I hadn’t had a mother since I was……" — Dick Francis
"I hadn’t had a mother since I was two, and from then until seven I had believed God was someone who had run off with her and was living with her somewhere else... (God took your mother, dear, because he needed her more than you do) which had never endeared him to me"
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20 Quotes by Dick Francis
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Writing a novel proved to be the hardest, most self-analyzing task I had ever attempted, far worse than an autobiography:…
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THE KNOWN CHILD I wondered to what extent people remained the same as they'd been when very young; if one…
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Historically, more people have died of religion than cancer.
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A jump jockey has to throw his heart over the fence - and then go over and catch it.
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Logic doesn't stop you feeling. You can behave logically and it can hurt like hell. Or it can comfort you.…
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But people as a rule believe only what they want to believe, and if you tell them anything else they'll…
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Crime to many is not crime but simply a way of life. If laws are inconvenient, ignore them, they dont…
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Good manners are a sign of strength.
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Everyone journeys through character as well as through time. The person one becomes depends on the person one has been.
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Some are born weird, some achieve it, others have weirdness thrust upon them.
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The dignity of man was everywhere tissue-paper thin.
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Most people think, when they're young, that they're going to the top of their chosen world, and that the climb…
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