“ My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder. ”
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“ He found himself understanding the wearisomeness of this life, where every path was an improvisation and a considerable part of one's waking life was spent watching one's feet. ”
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“ I don't like the word 'allegorical', I don't like the word 'symbolic' the word I really like is 'mythic', and people always think that means 'full of lies', whereas of course what it really means is 'full of truth which cannot be told in any other way but a story'. ”
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“ It wasn't until I was 37 that I grasped the great truth that you've got to write your own books and nobody else's, and then everything followed from there. ”
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“ It wasn't until I was 37 that I grasped the great truth that you've got to write your own books and nobody else's, and then everything followed from there. ”
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“ We think we know." "Know? That's worse than an atom bomb, and always was. ”
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“ He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience. ”
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“ What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others. ”
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“ We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages. We're English, and the English are best at everything. ”
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“ We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages. We're English, and the English are best at everything. ”
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“ We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages. We're English, and the English are best at everything. ”
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“ The journey of life is like a man riding a bicycle. We know he got on the bicycle and started to move. We know that at some point he will stop and get off. We know that if he stops moving and does not get off he will fall off. ”
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“ Consider a man riding a bicycle. Whoever he is, we can say three things about him. We know he got on the bicycle and started to move. We know that at some point he will stop and get off. Most important of all, we know that if at any point between the beginning and the end of his journey he stops moving and does not get off the bicycle he will fall off it… ”
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“ The journey of life is like a man riding a bicycle. We know he got on the bicycle and started to move. We know that at some point he will stop and get off. We know that if he stops moving and does not get off he will fall off. ”
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“ Novelists do not write as birds sing, by the push of nature. It is part of the job that there should be much routine and some daily stuff on the level of carpentry. ”
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“ The writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, but he should immediately forget what he meant when he's written it. ”
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“ Consider a man riding a bicycle. Whoever he is, we can say three things about him. We know he got on the bicycle and started to move. We know that at some point he will stop and get off. Most important of all, we know that if at any point between the beginning and the end of his journey he stops moving and does not get off the bicycle he will fall off it… ”
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“ What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others. ”
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