"I'm very secretive. I'll write a whole novel and revise it, which might take me two years or more, and the people I know best don't know what I'm writing about."

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Alice Mattison

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“The rewards of golf, and of life too I expect, are worth very little if you don't play the game by the etiquette as well as by the rules.”
“There's only one thing that can save a man from madness and that's uncertainty.”
“I think I can say, and say with pride, that we have some legislatures that bring higher prices than any in the world.”
“Richard Dawkins is arguably England's most pious atheist.”

Source : Simon Conway Morris (2003). “Life's Solution: Inevitable Humans in a Lonely Universe”, p.315, Cambridge University Press
“I would not live alway; I ask not to stay Where storm after storm rises dark o'er the way.”

Source : William Augustus Muhlenberg (1871). “"I Would Not Live Alway."”, p.16
“The sardines had their heads on and they were like watching you.”
“I think there is an immense charm and humanity about the Bollywood structure, probably in the way there was about Hollywood film in the '30s and '40s. Somehow they were less distracted about hardware, and more about production values and people, you know?”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“One man's fish is another man's poisson.”

Source : Mark Gatiss (2005). “Vesuvius Club”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

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