"I am getting frustrated by the fact that we have been out of office for eight years. I desperately want to lead the Conservative Party to make quicker progress back into power."

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Source : "Clarke lines up backers for leadership" by Matthew Tempest, www.theguardian.com. August 30, 2005.

Kenneth Clarke

#Party Quotes #Eight Quotes #Years Quotes

“Wisest is she who knows she does not know.”
“The important thing is to create. Nothing else matters; creation is all.”
“Some is, I think, the personal in any act of writing. You find yourself caught up: you start a sentence, and it becomes revelatory, not just of the character, but of you as well.”

Source : Interview with Ratik Asokan, logger.believermag.com. September 23, 2014.
“I think love is one of those things that it's only really bad because it was once good. You can't miss something that was never amazing. So, what I've learned is that even if it ends badly, it's worth it if it made you feel something, if it taught you something.”
“If there is a special Hades for writers is would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.”
“My mother on her death bed told me, 'Where the hell did that kangaroo come from!?' - it just popped out of nowhere and punched her in the head and caused a cerebral hemorrhage, so I thought I'd move to a country where there were no kangaroos!”
“When you're a political leader, when you represent the entire state or the entire country, not just Republicans or not just Democrats or not just the poor or not just the rich, you have to really represent everybody. No matter who contributes money, when you win, you represent everyone.”

Source : Source: www.nbcnews.com
“An artist who theorizes about his work is no longer artist but critic.”

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