‘All our talents increase in the using, and every faculty, both good and bad strengthens by exercise.’
Category: Quote Of The Week
Quote of the Week
‘Do you know what happens to people who set about learning to skate with a determination to get no falls? They fall as often as the rest of us, and they cannot skate in the end.’
Quote of the Week
‘Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.’
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‘She was thinking only that “some other time” had a delightful sound; it seemed to spread itself over the future.’
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‘An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last instalment missing.’
Quentin Crisp – The Naked Civil Servant
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‘Every walk can be expressed as a story narrated by the walker.’
– The Art of Wandering – The Writer As Walker – Merlin Coverley
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‘ I had a sense even at that age, of how the majority can submit to the bullying of a few determined individuals, and how a single man can restore to others a sense of the dignity of individuals and the power of a community.’
Quote of the Week
‘The Rat Race’ means a race where, no matter how fast you run, you don’t get anywhere. I felt bad about the title because, I thought, it wasn’t a rat race at all, it was a People Race, and no sensible rats would ever do anything so foolish,’
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‘God’s children are not for sale.’
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‘The thing is – fear can’t hurt you any more than a dream.’
Things In My Head 