"There are no sick people in North Oxford. They are either dead or alive. It's sometimes difficult to tell the difference, that's all ..."

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Source : Barbara Pym (1986). “Crampton Hodnet”, MacMillan Publishing Company

Barbara Pym

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“Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing.”

Source : Archibald MacLeish (1941). “The American cause”
“There are many possible interpretations of what it means to create dangerously, and Albert Camus, like the poet Osip Mandelstam, suggests that it is creating as a revolt against silence, creating when both the creation and the reception, the writing and the reading, are dangerous undertakings, disobedience to a directive.”
“Uggs. I think they're ugly. And I think big sunglasses are kind of overrated. I like big sunglasses but not those huge, round ones.”
“The same Constitution that allows her the right, if she wants to, to sit there and say nothing, allows these groups the right to petition their government for redress.”
“My technicians are my most important tools. Once I establish a rapport with them, then they would understand me in my next film. I wouldn't have to train anyone new. I give a lot of respect to all my technicians, because I'm a technician too. I wouldn't be able to convey a feeling if the writer didn't write it well, and the cameraman didn't shoot it well.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I'm no romantic, surfing, California boy. I like reading, writing, philosophizing. Scheming. I've been doing some exploration of the inner space.”
“Yoga is the state where you are missing nothing.”
“Never look at the brass - it only encourages them.”

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