It's true, I had an extremely delicious life, but that was my life at home, and perhaps because I was only a child, or for whatever reasons, I found the company of others, especially other boys, quite terrifying and upsetting. ~Harry Mathews
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Ideas for gadgets for the disabled were coming into my head so fast they seemed to be arriving from somewhere outside of me, beamed down by an unremitting force. I had little control over them, or their flow. I would wake up in the middle of the night. A blinding flash of an idea would rouse me from my bed and I'd rush down to my workshop to have a go at it before the inspiration dimmed. ~Trevor Baylis
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Mozart eliminates the idea of haste from life. His airs could not lag as they make their journey through the listener's attention; they are not the right shape for loitering. But it is as true that they never rush, they are never headlong or helter-skelter, they splash no mud, they raise no dust. ~Rebecca West
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I don't usually think of my writing as a "challenge" because I enjoy the process so much. I suppose that's what's helped me to avoid "writer's block" all these years. ~Melody Carlson
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The modern haematologist, instead of describing in English what he can see, prefers to describe in Greek what he can't. ~Richard Asher
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A true warrior, like tea, shows his strength in hot water. ~Chinese Proverb
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Many a true word is spoken in jest. ~English Proverb
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I didn't meddle. If I did meddle there wouldn't be all this violence. All this horrible sexism in games. ~Lincoln Chafee
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A wise man who knows proverbs reconciles difficulties. ~Yoruba Proverb
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Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it. ~Indian Proverb
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Every smile makes you a day younger. ~Chinese Proverb
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There are two kinds of people; those who are always well and those who are always sick. Most of the evils of the world come from the first sort and most of the achievement from the second. ~Louis Dudek
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The mind should be as a mirror. ~Zen Proverb
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I failed at the biggest things there are in life. I failed in my health, I failed in my marriage, I failed in everything, and I have picked myself up and gone on. ~Sharon Stone
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A proverb is an ornament to language. ~Persian Proverb
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We need better neighbors, neighbors that care about the schools in their neighborhood, whether they have kids in them or not, because they know that the health and vitality of that neighborhood depends on it. ~Thomas Friedman
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Under capitalism, man exploits man; under socialism, the reverse is true. ~Polish Proverb
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The common sayings of the multitude are too true to be laughed at. ~Welsh Proverb
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A good horse will never return to graze on grass it has already passed by. ~Chinese Proverb
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I'm what a normal, healthy, ideal American should be like. ~George McGovern
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My teenage years were spent trying to look like Rod Stewart; I ended up looking like Dave Hill from Slade. ~Tony Parsons
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He that is rich will not be called a fool. ~Spanish Proverb
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What kind of knife is this? Locke held a rounded buttering utensil up for Chains' inspection. It's all wrong. You couldn't kill anyone with this. ~Scott Lynch
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I believe that how you feel is very important to how you look; that healthy equals beautiful. ~Victoria Principal
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The owl is the wisest of all birds because the more it sees, the less it talks. ~African Proverb
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