"She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is good at being short."

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Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Clive James

#Confusion Quotes #Way Quotes #Abstract Quotes

“I keep working mainly because my wife and I spend most of our time touring the country doing our own plays.”
“I've always just liked writing poetry, but it's much later that I've discovered that there's this whole poetry world out there, that you almost have to be accepted into, like this little club.”
“Real freedom comes from the mastery, through knowledge, of historic conditions and race character, which makes possible a free and intelligent use of experience for the purpose of progress.”
“The first time I kissed you, you had just cut off your hair with a plastic knife. You were in restraints and your lips were completely chapped and dry from the tranquilizers. The next day you tried to kill me with a torn-off piece of bedsheet. I've seen you at your worst. You hardly need to dress up for me.”

Source : Amelia Atwater-Rhodes (2008). “Persistence of Memory”, Delacorte Books for Young Readers
“Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”

Source : Through the Looking-Glass ch. 5 (1872)
“John Glenn's father, known as Herschel, was mostly deaf from injuries in World War I. To help out at home, young Glenn sold rhubarb all over town from the family garden.”
“We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.”
“A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.”

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