"Asking a writer what he thinks about criticism is like asking a lamppost what it feels about dogs."

-- John Osborne

#Dog Quotes #Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“My mother learned that she was carrying me at about the same time the Second World War was declared; with the family talent for magic realism, she once told me she had been to the doctor's on the very day.”
“I was a child actor in radio, and there's not many of us left.”
“All things want to float.”
“We rely, I think, on landscape photography to make intelligible to us what we already know.”
“When all else fails there's always delusion.”
“Diplomacy was what I wanted to do. From really quite an early age and I think I had a false impression that diplomacy equals travel.”

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“The fundamental basis of this nationâ€™s laws was given to Moses on the Mountâ€¦If we donâ€™t have a proper fundamental moral background, we will finally end up with a totalitarian government which does not believe in rights for anybody except the State.”
“The disassociation between inner belief and outer behaviour allowed many people to enjoy a sense of retaining their inner decency while at the same time not risking any loss of livelihood, any compromise over career ambitions, let alone any potentially more sanctions; hence never revealing any signs of disagreement or openly showing anything less than apparently full commitment to the regime and its policies”

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