"Those who seek to impress upon us that they are gentlemen will usually be found mistaken."

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Source : Eden Phillpotts (1934). “A year with Bisshe-Bantam”

Eden Phillpotts

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“You have to make shots to win basketball games and we didn't do that. You also have to get back on defense, so it was a double-whammy.”
“The moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.”
“Love is often gentle, desire always a rage.”
“The whole fabric of our religion is based on superstitious beliefin lies that have been foisted upon us for ages by those directly above us, to whose personal profit and aggrandizement it was to have us continue to believe as they wished us to believe.”

Source : Edgar Rice Burroughs (2009). “The Gods of Mars”, p.200, The Floating Press
“You have to go really dark and deep with yourself and get your hands dirty and go into territories that you don't want to go into and feel things that you don't want to feel, but that's what ultimately pushes out the good and gives you some kind of a message that you can take and channel into something better. That energy's really powerful.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Graham Wallas has reminded us that writing as compared with speaking involves an impression at the second remove and reading an impression at the third remove. The voice of a second-rate person is more impressive than the published opinion of superior ability.”

Source : Harold Adams Innis (2007). “Empire and Communications”, p.31, Rowman & Littlefield
“A gritty grain of truth lay at the heart of most legends, she had told me, and the slow accretion of fiction hardened in layers around it.”

Source : Caroline Llewellyn (1994). “Life Blood”
“I've spent a lot of my teenage years working on sets. I've missed out on more than just playing rugby, but I think I've managed to keep my feet on the ground and keep my friends around me.”

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