"The country has its charms-cheapness for one."

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Source : Robert Smith Surtees (1888). “Hillingdon Hall: Or, The Cockney Squire : a Tale of Country Life”

Robert Smith Surtees

#Country Quotes #Charm Quotes #Cheapness Quotes

“If you don't succeed at first, there's no need for the F word (Failure). Pick yourself up and try, try again.”
“For me, speed isn't anything I ever practiced. It's all in the genes. Plus, my mom gave me a lot of vitamins when I was small.”

Source : Interview With Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. October 11, 2006.
“Life brings sorrows and joys alike. It is what a man does with them - not what they do to him - that is the true test of his mettle.”
“IÂ wanted to create an extremely sexy fragrance that would turn a man's head.”
“I wanted to be a decorator. I wanted to interior design homes and do everything myself.”
“From authors whom I read more than once I learn to value the weight of words and to delight in their meter and cadence -- in Gibbon's polyphonic counterpoint and Guedalla's command of the subjunctive, in Mailer's hyperbole and Dillard's similes, in Twain's invectives and burlesques with which he set the torch of his ferocious wit to the hospitality tents of the world's colossal humbug . . . I know no other way out of what is both the maze of the eternal present and the prison of the self except with a string of words.”
“I think time is elastic. There are moments in my life that are many, many years ago and yet I can conjure them as though it's a second ago. And there are other things that happened maybe last week that seem like ages ago.”

Source : "Interview: Keith Carradine talks ‘Fargo’ and a ‘Deadwood’ anniversary". Interview with Daniel Fienberg, uproxx.com. April 23, 2014.
“What we wish upon the future is very often the image of some lost, imagined past.”

Source : Graham Swift (1991). “Waterland”, Simon & Schuster

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