"Loyalty to the school to which your parents pay to send you seemed to me like feeling loyalty to Selfridges."

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Source : John Mortimer (2010). “CLINGING TO THE WRECKAGE”, p.40, Penguin UK

John Mortimer

#Loyalty Quotes #School Quotes #Parent Quotes

“People are social beings and want interaction and social learning is the primary form of learning, just as word of mouth advertising is the highest form of advertising.”
“When you see the ugliness behind the tears of another person, it makes you take a closer look at your own.”
“There is a lot of kissing in 'Boeing-Boeing.' A lot! And not pecks on the cheek or lips - although there's some of that, too - but full-on, farcical lip locks. My poor husband. He definitely wasn't prepared for as much smooching as there is.”
“Since the journey is a metaphor - the most ambiguous and seductive of metaphors, we tell ourselves - it can also be born of immobility. There is no need to drag our bodies around so much, all dressed up. It's hot, there are flies, diseases. It is enough to close our eyes, seated on a chair in the shade, to float on the waves of imagination. Isn't that what books are there for?”

Source : Dacia Maraini, Dick Kitto, Elspeth Spottiswood (1999). “The Silent Duchess”, p.258, Feminist Press at CUNY
“For people to understand me when I travel, I speak with my hands.”
“Slap some keys on her and we'll have a piano.”
“I think, like, Twitter is somewhat difficult sometimes, and it can be kind of negative.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Religion is just a path for finding truth: Religion is not truth. It is just a path. And different people follow different paths.”

Source : Anita Moorjani (2012). “Dying to be Me: My Journey from Cancer, to Near Death, to True Healing”, p.18, Hay House, Inc

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