"I suppose that writers should, in a way, feel flattered by the censorship laws. They show a primitive fear and dread at the fearful magic of print."

-- John Mortimer

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“The secret is to get a good cinematographer and a very good assistant director. If you get those and stay out of their way, and have good actresses, the script doesn't even have to be that extraordinary.”
“Nature is a collective idea, and, though its essence exist in each individual of the species, can never in its perfection inhabit a single object.”

Source : James Barry, John Opie, Henry Fuseli (1848). “Lectures on Painting”, p.495
“The nut of this tree is hung high aloft, wrapped in a silk wrapper, which is enclosed in a case of sole leather, which again is packed in a mass of shock absorbing, vermin proof pulp, sealed up in a waterproof, ironwood case, and finally cased in a vegetable porcupine of spines, almost impregnable. There is no nut so protected; there is no nut in our woods to compare with it as food. What is a Chesnut?”
“I've got such effeminate hands. I could never be strong. Whenever I even got to a save, my fingers would just bend back and the ball would hit me in the face.”
“Once you have felt the Indian dust, you will never be free of it.”

Source : Rumer Godden (2011). “The Peacock Spring”, p.31, Pan Macmillan
“Power consists to a large extent in deciding what stories will be told.”
“Too often we are Christians by assumption, manipulation or instruction, rather than Christians by regeneration.”
“I had no companions to quarrel with, nobody to assist, and nobody to thank... the evil consequence of all this was not, however, what might perhaps have been expected, that I grew up selfish or non affectionate; but that, when affection did come, it came with a violence utterly rampant and unmanageable.”

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