"I think it was the fact that I liked it so much that made the writing just come out of me automatically."

-- James Herriot

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“I suppose that the media and their portrayal of Islam and the almost tribal separations and divisions of the Muslims are the greatest issues confronting Muslims in the United Kingdom.”
“Consensus doesn't happen by magic... You have to drive to it.”
“Out of the hills of Habersham, Down the valleys of Hall, I hurry amain to reach the plain; Run the rapid and leap the fall, Split at the rock, and together again Accept my bed, or narrow or wide, And flee from folly on every side With a lover's pain to attain the plain, Far from the hills of Habersham, Far from the valleys of Hall.”

Source : Sidney Lanier (1999). “Poems of Sidney Lanier”, p.24, University of Georgia Press
“His smile was sexy and warned of trouble, but I'd made up my mind that not all trouble was bad.”
“The imagination is always the best torturer.”

Source : Bryce Courtenay (2011). “The Power of One”, p.72, ReadHowYouWant.com
“You wonder and you wonder until you wander out into Infinity, where - if it is to be found anywhere - Truth really exists.”

Source : Marita Bonner (1987). “Frye Street & environs: the collected works of Marita Bonner”, Beacon Press (MA)
“As a world leader, America must be prepared to confront any challenge.”
“It is time to remind Sharon that the star of David belongs to all Jews, not to his repulsive Government. His actions are staining the star of David with blood. The Jewish people, whose gifts to civilised discourse include Einstein and Epstein, Mendelssohn and Mahler, Sergei Eisenstein and Billy Wilder, are now symbolised throughout the world by the blustering bully Ariel Sharon, a war criminal implicated in the murder of Palestinians at the Sabra and Shatila camps and now involved in killing Palestinians once again.”

Source : Speech to the House of Commons, April 2002.

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