"I have to be careful not to visit one place right after the other and write one book after the other. Because I fear writing the same book all over again. That's why I am taking a break and doing something different this time."

-- John Gimlette

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“Some people get very confused about my game. They think it's better if the court is slow, because I have a good defence. But the faster it is, the better for me. My spin is more painful for my opponents, my aggressive game works better.”
“My Love is like to ice, and I to fire: How comes it then that this her cold so great Is not dissolved through my so hot desire, But harder grows the more I her entreat?”
“I am particularly disturbed that our country is the largest financial supporter of an organization that not only wastes a lot of our money but also seems to be increasingly anti-American in its policies and conduct.”
“The most virtuous women have something within them, something that is never chaste.”
“I was a very self-righteous 15-25 year old. Anyway, I wake up every morning and thank God I'm not a kid anymore.”
“But the customer is the final, final filter. What survives the whole process is what people wear. I'm not interested in making clothes that end up in some dusty museum.”
“If a man coaches himself, then he has only himself to blame when he is beaten.”

Source : Sir Roger Bannister (2011). “The First Four Minutes”, p.41, The History Press
“God is His own motive. His love is not drawn out by our loveableness, but wells up, like an artesian spring, from the depths of His nature.”

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