‘Don’t let anyone say to you that nothing exciting ever happens to you when you are old. Because it does. And it’s just as nice to be seventy as it is to be young.’
–Agatha Christie (from the Mousetrap Man by Peter Saunders)
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‘He was nothing at all when people tried to tell him what he was.’
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‘We lived as usual by ignoring. Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance. You have to work at it.’
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‘No word of complaint ever passes his lips, however, for he is one of the aristocrats of the spirit – the poor artist who wishes for nothing but a chance to create.’
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‘All our talents increase in the using, and every faculty, both good and bad strengthens by exercise.’
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‘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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‘The thing is – fear can’t hurt you any more than a dream.’
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‘Starting implies a beginning.’
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‘Suffering is not increased by numbers; one body can contain all the suffering the world can feel.’
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‘The blood jet is poetry, there is no stopping it.’
Things In My Head 