"The people look forbidding, solemn, marked by that impossible ideal, Communism, which, like Christianity, seemed to demand too much of humanity and, falling into the wrong hands, led too easily to horrible brutality."

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Source : John Mortimer (1994). “Murderers and Other Friends: Another Part of Life”, Viking Press

John Mortimer

#Fall Quotes #Hands Quotes #People Quotes

“Art thrives on society and society thrives on its art.”
“Fear? What has a man to do with fear? Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown. Best live as we may, from day to day.”
“In an ideal world, I'd bounce between big projects and no-budget TV dramas with fantastic scripts.”
“Anger is frustration at the fact that we are not God, and do not have control over reality.”
“Leadership belongs to all of us. I'm a big believer in John Maxwell, a leadership speaker and author, who talks about the 360-degree leader. Before leading others, you have to learn to lead yourself. Wherever you work in an organization you have to learn to lead up, lead down, and lead side to side. Leadership belongs to all of us. You have to see yourself, and believe in yourself in the way that we are talking about here to give to those that you lead.”

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“And finally, in our time a beard is the one thing that a woman cannot do better than a man, or if she can her success is assured only in a circus.”
“You ever laughed so hard nobody in the world could hurt you for a minute, no matter what they tried to do to you?”
“The thing that usually gets me through the writing is that my feelings of wretched inadequacy are irregularly punctuated by brief flashes of omnipotence.”

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