"You can create a good impression on yourself……" — Michael Frayn
"You can create a good impression on yourself by being right, he realizes, but for creating a good impression on others there's nothing to beat being totally and catastrophically wrong."
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Michael Frayn
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16 Quotes by Michael Frayn
Michael Frayn has 16 quotes on this site.
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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…
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We have one set of obligations to the world in general, and we have other sets, never to be reconciled,…
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Look at your hand. Its structure does not match the structure of assertions, the structure of facts. Your hand is…
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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…
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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?…
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Even in the things that look most frivolous there has to be the threat of something quite painful to make…
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I've never written a fiction before about real people. . . . I read everything that I could find by…
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And now everything has changed once again. The air of the Close each evening is full of bird song -…
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You can create a good impression on yourself by being right . . . but for creating a good impression…
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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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