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Andrew Motion

"I read ' Treasure Island' for the first time at university. And I started to notice then how unresolved some things were. Later, I realised that Stevenson was interested in sequels, and I wondered whether he would have gone back to it had he lived longer."

Source : "Andrew Motion: 'The day I stopped being laureate, the poems that had been very few and far between came back to me'". Interview With William Skidelsky, www.theguardian.com. March 16, 2012.

Andrew Motion

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“Before you can be eccentric, you must know where the circle is....”

Source : Dame Ellen Terry (1908). “The Story of My Life: Recollections and Reflections”
“Seal my lips on aches and pains. They are increasing, and love of rehearsing them is becoming sweeter as the years go by.”

Source : Rosalind Russell, Chris Chase (1979). “Life is a Banquet”
“Science progresses not by convincing the adherents of old theories that they are wrong, but by allowing enough time to pass so that a new generation can arise unencumbered by the old errors.”
“I am just coming into my best years. This year I did new things; stretching and abdominal work.”
“The dumbest women I hooked up with were in Florida. I lived in Florida for a year, and it was just shocking. I literally felt like after living there for a couple months that I had become stupider. It was unbelievable. If you read my stories based around crazy women, about 75 percent of those women were in Florida Â…and I only lived there for a year.”
“Try not to trip," she added. "We don't have time for a concussion today." I groaned. That would be just like me - ruin everything, destroy the world, in a moment of klutziness.”
“Because there are those who trust and encourage. I became a roly-poly Hyoyeon!! ^^”
“Why should it be thought incredible that the same soul should inhabit in succession an indefinite number of moral bodies? Even during this one life our bodies are perpetually changing, through a process of decay and restoration; which is so gradual that it escapes our notice. Every human being thus dwells successively in many bodies, even during one short life.”

"I read ' Treasure Island' for the first time at university. And I started to notice then how unresolved some things were. Later, I realised that Stevenson was interested in sequels, and I wondered whether he would have gone back to it had he lived longer."

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