"Osbert was the only one who didn't seem……" — Meg Rosoff
"Osbert was the only one who didn't seem suspicious. He was so interested in the Decline of Western Civilization that he missed the version of it taking place under his nose."
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66 Quotes by Meg Rosoff
Meg Rosoff has 66 quotes on this site.
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My daughter is a fantastic travelling companion - she's totally organised, whereas I'm hopeless.
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If you have the patience to wait and watch, history will reshape truth (weakest of all forces, and weightless) in…
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Accept love instinctively, without responsibility or conditions.
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When you read a book, the neurons in your brain fire overtime, deciding what the characters are wearing, how they're…
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The imagination can be dangerous. It can change the world. And that is why we write.
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I, a late riser, fantasise about getting up every morning at 5 A.M. to fetch the horses in from the…
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I've noticed that the magic getting along with someone isn't really magic. If you break it down, you can see…
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I'd like to think life has improved since 1850, despite the long hours we all seem to spend slaving over…
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Your writing voice is the deepest possible reflection of who you are. The job of your voice is not to…
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Life is absolutely horrific, leading up to absolute horror.
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While working in advertising, I channelled my creative energy into elaborate escape fantasies: cake making, dog breeding, the Peace Corps.
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I didn't seem to have that effect on anyone but it would have been a waste for both of us…
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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our…
— Hannah Arendt
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The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be…
— Hannah Arendt
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We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization.…
— Julian Assange
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Debt is part of the human condition. Civilization is based on exchanges - on gifts, trades, loans - and the…
— Margaret Atwood
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The papacy again, representing the traditional unity of European civilization, has also shown itself unable to limit effectively the push…
— Irving Babbitt
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Civilization... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere.
— Richard Bach
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Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that…
— Edward Abbey
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Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America.…
— L. Frank Baum
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Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.
— Jane Addams
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Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses.
— Georges Bernanos
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Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.
— Ambrose Bierce
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In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by…
— Ambrose Bierce
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