"Yet, like the sea and the gallows, London refuses nobody."

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Peter Ackroyd

#Sea Quotes #London Quotes #Gallows Quotes

“Dams have harmed our wildlife and made rivers less useful for recreation.”
“It is so appropriate to color hope yellow, like the sun we seldom saw. And as I begin to copy from the old memorandum journals that I kept for so long, a title comes as if inspired. 'Open the Window and Stand in the Sunshine.' Yet, I hesitate to name our story that. For I think of us more as flowers in the attic.”
“A better distribution of incomes would increase that efficiency by diverting a great fund of wealth from the useless to the useful members of society. To cut off the income of the useless will not impair their efficiency. They have none to impair. It will, in fact, compel them to acquire a useful function.”
“Music should be your escape.”
“My attitude is never to be satisfied, never enough, never.”
“I have learned to smoke because I need something to hold onto.”

Source : Elizabeth Smart (1945). “By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept ; And, The Assumption of the Rogues & Rascals”, Vintage
“I come from the theater and I plan to always do theater. So I don't really see myself not being able to act even if people don't think I am sexy enough for film at 40, I'll still be acting.”
“I love TV. I love the stability of it.”

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