"Grown-ups didn't seem to realize that for me, as for most other schoolboys, it was easier to keep silent than to speak. I was a natural oyster."

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Source : L. P. Hartley (2015). “The Go-between”, p.104, Penguin UK

L.P. Hartley

#Oysters Quotes #Realizing Quotes #Speak Quotes

“My new house is going to have wall-to-wall awards!”
“My name is Patrick Fitzgerald ... I like to tear the tops off small animals.”
“Restlessness is the hallmark of existence.”
“No one's reputation is quite what he himself perceives it ought to be.”

Source : "Vokes - My Story" by Chris Vokes, John Philip Maclean, (p. 188), 1985.
“I'm one of the great unemployed looking for the next job. I'm waiting for the right offer. Like anyone, I want something that turns me on inside.”
“As thou directest the power, harm or advantage will follow, and the torrent that swept the valley may be led to turn a mill.”
“I'd have to say I'm pretty adventurous. I just went to Shanghai for the Special Olympics and I tried dim sum. I'd never really had it before and some of it looked pretty scary, but I tried it anyway. My philosophy is, you're not going to know if you like it until you try it.”

Source : Source: www.seventeen.com
“I would also argue... that we are, by inclination and in terms of our history, we are small 'l' liberals, we Canadians.”

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