"An author's first duty is to let down his country."

-- Brendan Behan

#Country Quotes #Firsts Quotes #Let Down Quotes

“Oh the wild joys of living! The leaping from rock to rock ... the cool silver shock of the plunge in a pool's living waters.”
“I have a pretty good record of winning in court.”
“You've got a lot of very, very smart people standing by waiting for somebody else to do the work. Not a recipe for long-term solvency in my opinion.”
“I hope to start enjoying flirting again when I'm 70, like my mother did.”
“You deicde, and you make our night what you want. Brilliant and ours. Stupid and theirs.”

Source : Arthur Phillips (2004). “The Egyptologist: A Novel”, p.502, Random House
“The man in gray decided to take the Glen Suite of diamonds at midnight. Provided they were still in the apartment safe and the occupants away. This he needed to know. So he watched and he waited. At half past seven he was rewarded.”

Source : Frederick Forsyth (2011). “The Fourth Protocol”, p.9, Random House
“Women who bear children before they establish serious habits of work, may never establish them at all.”
“Those who ignore Statistics are condemned to reinvent it.”

Source : "'The Role of Statistics in the Data Revolution?'. International Statistical Review 69: 5-10" by Jerome H. Friedman, April 2001.

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