"All the libel lawyers will tell you there's no libel any more, that everyone's given up."

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Ian Hislop

#Lawyer Quotes #Given Quotes #Libel Quotes

“Just begin a story with such a phrase as 'I remember Disraeli - poor old Dizz! - once saying to me, in answer to my poke in the eye,' and you will find me and Morpheus off in a corner, necking.”
“I can hear other things, too. Before you came around, I had no idea a man could make a girl scream like that. Reyes seems very talented.”
“Reading was a big thing, yes. Books were a big thing. But the things that stick out were the newspapers.”
“The difference between you and God is that God doesn't think He's you.”

Source : Dorothy Miller Richardson (1967). “Pilgrimage”
“Luck ran out, but smart was for life.”

Source : John Connolly (2012). “The Burning Soul: A Charlie Parker Thriller”, p.170, Simon and Schuster
“Radley rolled his eyes. He actually rolled his eyes at my father. Alpha of the south-central territory and head of the Territorial Council. Sure, I did that all the time but I'd also peed on his lap when I was two. No one else got away with such disrespect toward an Alpha, which meant Radley either didn't know who my father was, or didn't care”
“You are still despised and mocked, A man too weak and infirm to be God, A God too much man to call forth adoration.”
“I know Im not going to book everything I go in on, and thats just the nature of the business. You have to keep hustling and not get down on it. You have to keep at it and find your way in. Everybodys story is different.”

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