"I turn over a new leaf every day. But the blots show through."

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Source : Keith Waterhouse (2012). “Keith Waterhouse: Collected Plays”, p.66, Oberon Books

Keith Waterhouse

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“Her eyes take on that suspicious, wounded look girls get when they know they've fallen off the top rung of friendship and someone else has passed them, but they don't know when or how the change took place.”
“The idea that maybe you don't have to own a car if you only need one occasionally may catch on, just like time-sharing caught on in real estate”
“... Art is a soaring exercise of the human imagination.”

Source : Daniel Bell (1991). “The Winding Passage: Sociological Essays and Journeys”, p.20, Transaction Publishers
“It is obviously good and proper to respect the U.S. flag, perpetuated with the blood of American heroes. On the other hand, it can be a fatal mistake, a nuking of the Bill of Rights, not to recognize scoundrels who wrap themselves in the same flag to cover up their crimes against the American common people.”
“God does not have problems. Only plans,”
“I feel that talent means little unless coupled with an insatiable desire to give an excellent personal demonstration of ability...talent must be in company with a capacity for unlimited effort which provides the power that eventually hurdles the difficulties that would frustrate lukewarm enthusiasm.”
“There is a certain embarrassment about being a storyteller in these times when stories are considered not quite as satisfying as statements and statements not quite as satisfying as statistics; but in the long run, a people is known, not by its statements or its statistics, but by the stories it tells.”
“A mere chronicle of observed events will produce only journalism; combined with a sensitive memory, it can produce art.”

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