"People will go to endless trouble to divorce one person and then marry someone who is exactly the same, except probably a bit poorer and a bit nastier. I don't think anybody learns anything."

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Source : "Rumpole creator Mortimer dies at 85" by Sam Marsden and Chris Moncrieff, January 16, 2009.

John Mortimer

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“For the past 50 years, we've been fishing the seas like we clear-cut forests. It's hard to overstate the destruction. Ninety percent of large fish, the ones we love - the tunas, the halibuts, the salmons, swordfish - they've collapsed.”
“When I interview people accused of capital offenses, I never even ask if they did it. I would consider that unprofessional.”

Source : Interview with Ann Bruns, www.bookreporter.com. May 17, 2002.
“Sometimes I look back and think, 'Good. I'd love to go in and bang out a good episode of 'Talk Soup' today.'”
“I definitely want to keep working in Ireland, and without being too worthy about it, if it's possible to bring work into the country, that's no harm.”
“We're in a time now where technology is such that we can create anything, and that's what's new about television and film these days.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I nationalize strategic companies and get criticized, but when Bush does it, it's OK. ... Bush is turning socialist. How are you, comrade Bush?”
“This has been a great experience for me. The first couple of days you don't always feel too well. You adjust to the fluid shifting, how to fly through space without hitting things or anybody else. But then you get in a groove.”
“Good photographs aren't just complex. They are enigmatic. Images are beguiling. And the way they play into our psychology, into our visual cortex, is something we still don't understand.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

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