"The secret of good health and happiness is to have rather small illnesses throughout your life which you can rely on to stop you doing anything you don't want to do."

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Source : "In the Pina Colada zone" by Kathryn Flett, www.theguardian.com. August 7, 2004.

John Mortimer

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“Do you ever find yourself bursting into a sort of lunatic laughter at the sheer prettiness of things?”

Source : Beverley Nichols (2009). “Rhapsody in Green: The Garden Wit and Wisdom of Beverley Nichols”, p.112, Timber Press
“The music led to the acting. But movies aren't something you can just will yourself into. Someone has to choose you, and you have to be quite fortunate to be chosen.”
“In one split second I saw everything I could be, everything I want to be. And all that I'm not.”

Source : Jandy Nelson (2014). “I'll Give You the Sun”, p.140, Penguin
“Foolish. Stupid. I knew it. I knew my reaction was unreasonable, bu the heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing. Blaise Pascal said that, and I've always found it to be true.”
“There is nothing you can’t do, if you set your mind to it. Anything is possible.”
“Free education and health care are essential for the welfare of the population.”
“Style is a fraud. I always felt the Greeks were hiding behind their columns.”

Source : 1949 'A Desperate View', lecture given in NewYork.
“Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim.”

Source : John D. Rockefeller (2015). “John D. Rockefeller on Making Money: Advice and Words of Wisdom on Building and Sharing Wealth”, p.32, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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