"They were maps that lived, maps that one could study, frown over, and add to; maps, in short, that really meant something."

-- Gerald Durrell

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“George MacDonald gives me renewed strength during times of trouble--times when I have seen people tempted to deny God--when he says, "The Son of God suffered unto death, not that men might not suffer, but that their sufferings might be like his.”
“There are many levels of truth.”
“As a male writer, women are always what men pursue, and their world is always a mystery. So I always tried to present as many views as possible on women's worlds.”
“I don't like my movies. I prefer John Ford's movies. I've made some movies that are interesting, or that have some point, or are more or less beautiful. But I've never made anything big to me, from my point of view. "Big" like John Ford or someone of that kind. I say John Ford because he is my favorite director.”

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“We live in a dirty and dangerous world. There are some things the general public does not need to know, and shouldn't. I believe democracy flourishes when the government can take legitimate steps to keep its secrets and when the press can decide whether to print what it knows.”
“The extraordinarily facile and in literary terms long lived works tend to be about ordinary people. Even Sappho writes about the utterly insignificant . What art can do is make the extraordinary more ordinary and ordinary more extraordinary.”

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“I've decided that art is a habit-forming drug. That's all it is, for the artist, for the collector, for anybody connected with it.”
“Older women are best because they always think they may be doing it for the last time.”

Source : Quoted in John Pearson, The Life of Ian Fleming (1966)

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