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Alan Bennett
: That's a bit like asking a man crawling across the Sahara whether he would prefer Perrier or Malvern water.
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Even while I protest the assembly-line production of our food, our songs, our language, and eventually our souls, I know that it was a rare home that baked good bread in the old days. Mother's cooking was with rare exceptions poor, that good unpasteurized milk touched only by flies and bits of manure crawled with bacteria, the healthy old-time life was riddled with aches, sudden death from unknown causes, and that sweet local speech I mourn was the child of illiteracy and ignorance. It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better.
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Henry David Thoreau :
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We need the tonic of wildness, to wade sometimes in marshes where the bittern and the meadow-hen lurk, and hear the booming of the snipe; to smell the whispering sedge where only some wilder and more solitary fowl builds her nest, and the mink crawls with its belly close to the ground.
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Fawn M Brodie :
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Show me a character whose life arouses my curiosity, and my flesh begins crawling with suspense.
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Veronica Lake :
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Hollywood gives a young girl the aura of one giant, self-contained orgy farm, its inhabitants dedicated to crawling into every pair of pants they can find.
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Anaïs Nin :
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The times in his studio when he washed his hands and they smoked, for his hands were so warm and the water so cold.
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Raymond Chandler :
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That's one thing I like about Hollywood. The writer is there revealed in his ultimate corruption. He asks no praise, because his praise comes to him in the form of a salary check. In Hollywood the average writer is not young, not honest, not brave, and a bit overdressed. But he is darn good company, which book writers as a rule are not. He is better than what he writes. Most book writers are not as good.
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Edward Bulwer-Lytton :
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Delores breezed along the surface of her life like a flat stone forever skipping along smooth water, rippling reality sporadically but oblivious to it consistently, until she finally lost momentum, sank, and due to an over- dose of flouride as a child which caused her to suffer from chronic apathy, doomed herself to lie forever on the floor of her life as useless as an appendix and as lonely as a five-hundred pound barbell in a steroid-free fitness center.
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Bishop Desmond Tutu :
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Do your little bit of good where you are; its those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.
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Jessica Simpson :
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A little bit is not that much to ask to make things right.
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A Lou Vickery :
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Four short words sum up what has lifted most successful individuals above the crowd: a little bit more. They did all that was expected of them and a little bit more.
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Paul J Meyer :
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Do a little bit more than average and from that point on our progress multiplies itself out of all proportion to the effort put in.
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Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories, knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.
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Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.
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Alan Bennett:
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I was an only child. I lost both my parents. By the time I was twenty I was bald. I'm homosexual. In the way of circumstances and background to transcend I had everything an artist could possibly want. It was practically a blueprint. I was programmed to be a novelist or a playwright. But I'm not.
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Geoff: We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules.
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# Anarchism
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Polly: Education with socialists, it's like sex, all right as long as you don't have to pay for it.
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I lack what the English call character, by which they mean the power to refrain.
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That's a bit like asking a man crawling across the Sahara whether he would prefer Perrier or Malvern water.
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Headmaster: I have never understood this liking for war. It panders to instincts already catered for within the scope of any respectable domestic establishment.
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Headmaster: Clad in the magnificent white silk robes of an Arab prince, with in his belt the short curved, gold sword of the Ashraf descendants of the Prophet, he hoped to pass unnoticed through London. Alas, he was mistaken. "Who am I?" he would cry despairingly. "You are Lawrence of Arabia" passers-by would stop him and say, "And I claim my five pounds."
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Headmaster: They were all socialists. Why is it always the intelligent people who are socialists?
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