"Thomas More's birth was noted by his father upon a blank page at the back of a copy of Geoffrey of Monmouth's 'Historia Regum Britanniae'; for a lawyer John More was remarkably inexact in his references to that natal year, and the date has been moved from 1477 to 1478 and back again."

-- Peter Ackroyd

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“I am not a greedy person except about flowers and plants, and then I become fanatically greedy.”
“Gamblers and lovers really play to lose.”
“Much of the point of individual action is really to communicate with other people and with political leaders and to demonstrate to them that we are willing to live lives which are less dependent on fossil fuels and we'll show you that now by changing our individual life to some extent but we want you to take action, political leaders, so that we aren't living in a society in which we're dependent on poisoning the future in order to maintain present lifestyles.”
“Itâ€™s very strange how electronic music formatted itself and forgot that its roots are about the surprise, freedom, and the acceptance of every race, gender, and style of music into this big party.”
“Selfishness keeps man blind through life.”
“Love is the foundation from which your decisions about your life should be made.”
“In the latter case it is often government that organizes the conquest, and religion that justifies it.”
“...You deserve to be happy. What can I do?" Don't send me away, I thought. He looked at me again. "What do you want?" "I want to taste an apple," I said. And your lips, I thought.”

Source : Laura Whitcomb (2005). “A Certain Slant of Light”, p.76, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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