Charles Palliser famous quotes
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Victorian values meant brutalizing people who were often poor.
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I think every first-person narrator in a novel should be compromised. I prefer that word to unreliable.
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To exist is to be betrayed, since we exist for others only by virtue of what we betray of ourselves to them.
-- Charles Palliser
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Like most parents, I've been stumped by homework, the big questions, such as: 'What is the point of geography - the pilot always knows where we are going?'. Answer: 'If you didn't know any geography, people would think you were an American, and you wouldn't be able to put them right because you wouldn't know where they live.'
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Facts are what pedantic, dull people have instead of opinions.
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God does not so much want us to do things as to let people see what He can do.
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Once a leader delegates, he should show utmost confidence in the people he has entrusted.
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People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
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People who deal with life generously and large-heartedly go on multiplying relationships to the end.
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Money has no color. If you can build a better mousetrap, it won't matter whether you're black or white. People will buy it.
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You can't help the poor by being one of them.
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Doom very evenly! Do not doom one doom to the rich; another to the poor! Nor doom one doom to your friend; another to your foe!
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Actors never say they're poor. They're always broke. It's always just temporary. 'Broke' is 'poor with hope'.
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