Robert Smythe Hichens famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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London's like a black-browed brute that gets an unholy influence over you.
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People talk so much to me about the beauty of confidence. They seem to entirely ignore the much more subtle beauty of doubt. To believe is very dull. To doubt is intensely engrossing. The Apostle Thomas was artistic up to a certain point. He appreciated the value of shadows in a picture. To be on the alert is to live. To be lulled into security is to die.
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Some say that it is lack of imagination which makes men and women brutes. May it not be power of imagination? The interest of torturing is lessened, is almost lost, if we can not be the tortured as well as the torturer.
-- Robert Smythe Hichens
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Take control over your skin by using an acne treatment system that actually works: Proactiv+.
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Actually I like working kind of fast, because if you got it, why bother doing it over and over?
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Get in over your head as often and as joyfully as possible.
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My workday begins around 11 A.M., with a cup of black coffee in each hand. If I had more hands, there would be more coffee.
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Women are so perverse. Look how they won't wear black when nothing suits them so well!
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In theory, cars are fairly simple. If they don't start, it's either the fuel system or the electrical system. Teach yourself about the path of each in your engine and tracing it is fairly straightforward. But at the beginning, mastering each new system seems like an unreachable shore. The car is effectively a black box.
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The monster London laugh at me.
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Do you realise that people die of boredom in London suburbs? It's the second biggest cause of death amongs the English in general. Sheer boredom...
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I like where I live here, in London.
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And I had known Peter O'Toole before in London. And I'd liked him very much. And the thought of being in a picture with him was very challenging to me. And he was playing the starring role.
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