"If there is one pleasure on earth which surpasses all others, it is leaving a play before the end. I might perhaps except the joy of taking tickets for a play, dining well, sitting on after dinner, and finally not going at all. That, of course, is very heaven."

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Source : Angela Thirkell (2012). “High Rising: A Virago Modern Classic”, p.106, Hachette UK

Angela Thirkell

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“I'm a con artist in that I'm an actor. I make people believe something is real when they know perfectly well it isn't.”
“I just want things to work properly.”
“Racial segregation has come back to public education with a vengeance.”
“Leadership is the ability of a single individual through his or her actions to motivate others to higher levels of achievement.”
“Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique, and not too much imagination.”

Source : Christopher Isherwood (1987). “The Wishing Tree: Christopher Isherwood on Mystical Religion”, Vedanta Press
“And I think that Africa is making progress that the world needs to recognize and assist the continent to continue on that path.”

Source : "Ghana's New President Shaped By A Violent Past". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. July 25, 2012.
“The Palestinian people have no national identity. I, Yasser Arafat, man of destiny, will give them that identity through conflict with Israel.”
“People teach their dogs to sit; it's a trick. I've been sitting my whole life, and a dog has never looked at me as though he thought I was tricky.”

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