"In action, the English have the advantage enjoyed by free men always entitled to free discussion: of having a ready judgment on every question. We Germans, on the other hand, are always thinking. We think so much that we never form a judgment."

-- Heinrich Heine

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“We take less pains to be happy, than to appear so.”
“The colour of the skin is in no way connected with strength of the mind or intellectual powers.”
“If you can't stand your own company alone in a room for long hours, or, when it gets tough, the feeling of being in a locked cell, or, when it gets tougher still, the vague feeling of being buried alive-then don't be a writer.”

Source : Graham Swift (2012). “Making an Elephant: Writing from Within”, p.56, Pan Macmillan
“My look is more grandmotherâ€™s leftovers than ***** chic.”
“My maternal family are South African and when I was small and my parents separated my mother and I went back to South Africa. So for me the emergence of my own childhood consciousness was in the context of 1970s and 1980s apartheid South Africa and the movement there.”
“The wild places are where we began. When they end, so do we.”
“The best way to get kids to read a book is to say: 'This book is not appropriate for your age, and it has all sorts of horrible things in it like sex and death and some really big and complicated ideas, and you're better off not touching it until you're all grown up. I'm going to put it on this shelf and leave the room for a while. Don't open it.”
“Half the people in Hollywood are dying to be discovered and the other half are afraid they will be.”

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