| When one's young, one does things because they are not for good, everything is a rehearsal; to be repeated ad lib, to be put right when the curtain goes up in earnest. One day you know that the curtain was up all the time. That was the performance. SYBILLE BEDFORD The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. JOHN F. KENNEDY History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird. JOSEPH CONRAD Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger. J.R.R. TOLKIEN Money is not wealth, no more than your hat-check is your hat... OLIVER ST.JOHN GOGARTY The right word spoken at the right time can achieve miracles. JOSEPH GOEBBELS |
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| The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane and devoted natures; the unselfish and intelligent may begin a movement - but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims. JOSEPH CONRAD Our life is frittered away by detail... Simplify, simplify. H. D. THOREAU Many have too rashly charged the troops of error and remain as trophies unto the enemies of truth. SIR THOMAS BROWNE I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act, but I believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act. G.K. CHESTERTON You may think that Vicars are not usually forgers, but the heart of man is a strange mechanism, and it is astonishing what even Vicars can bring themselves to believe, so long as it is in their own interest. T. H. WHITE |
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