"He really is terribly heavy going. Like running up hill in roller skates."

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Source : Alan Ayckbourn (1988). “The Norman Conquests: A Trilogy of Plays”, p.100, Grove Press

Alan Ayckbourn

#Running Quotes #Hills Quotes #Heavy Quotes

“You can survive with anger, but you can't live with it forever.”
“Writing as writing. Writing as rioting. Writing as righting. On the best days, all three.”

Source : Twitter post from Apr 11, 2014
“For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.”
“The left has chosen the courts as a major battlefield over social issues.”
“You really have to get to know the person's mental state. You have to understand what drives them and what motivates them.”
“What is the cause, though, of the growth of an acorn? The oak that is to come! What is to happen in the future is then the cause of what is occurring now; and, at the same time, what occurred in the past is also the cause of what is happening now. In addition, a great number of things round about, on every side, are causing what is happening now. Everything, all the time, is causing everything else”
“I have no notions of a perfect society, I donâ€™t know what that means. I know we can do much better than what weâ€™ve got, Iâ€™m no utopian, Iâ€™m not a humanist that would like to see everybody living in warmth and harmony: I know that if we donâ€™t live that way, weâ€™ll kill each other and destroy the Earth.”
“Cowriting is very personal. A great song is an honest song, so you have to be able to open up to the person in the room. It's like a blind date. I know in the first five minutes if it's gonna be weird.”

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