"You would go mad if you began to speculate about the impact your novel might have while you were still writing it."

-- Jonathan Coe

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“How many brave Men, courageous Women, and innocent Children did I see butcher'd, to do God good Service?. .. I went to the Irish Rebellion, where I saw more than three hundred thousand Souls murder'd in cold Blood.crying, Nits will become Lice, destroy Root and Branch: with a thousand other Barbarities, too tedious as well as too dreadful to repeat, beside what has been transacted abroad.”
“I can't help it if the ladies take note of me; I am not going to protest.”
“Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.”
“If something boils up under stress later, I remind myself to breathe and focus back to how I decided my day was going to go. It's simple but it works.”
“What is precious inside us does not care to be known by the mind in ways that diminish its presence.”
“I retired simply because I didn't have the passion and motivation anymore; I was tired. At the time I thought, 'Well, I had a great time, there is the end.' At some moment, there is the right time to call it an end.”
“One can begin so many things with a new person! - even begin to be a better man.”
“The Opposition aren't really the Opposition. They're just called the Opposition. But in fact they are the Opposition in exile. The Civil Service are the Opposition in residence.”

Source : Jonathan Lynn, Antony Jay (1988). “The complete Yes, Minister: the diaries of a cabinet minister”, HarperCollins

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