"The main aim of education should be to send children out into the world with a reasonably sized anthology in their heads so that, while seated on the lavatory, waiting in doctors' surgeries, on stationary trains or watching interviews with politicians, they may have something interesting to think about."

-- John Mortimer

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“If you really believe that you deserve better, work on you, not them.”
“It is a bad world, Donatus, an incredibly bad world. But I have discovered in the midst of it a quiet and good people who have learned the great secret of life. They have found a joy and wisdom which is a thousand times better than any of the pleasures of our sinful life. They are despised and persecuted, but they care not. They are masters of their souls. They have overcome the world. These people, Donatus, are Christians. . . and I am one of them.”
“I don't do cold. My reaction to cold is drastic. I'm a southern boy.”
“There is a slovenly disrespect for truth and reality that has infected and cross-infected the arts; the values of entertainment are relentlessly in the ascendant, to the extent that it becomes virtually impossible to write a naturalistic fictional sentence without feeling that the fabric of that sentence is already compromised.”
“I do think that we are an overmedicated society.”

Source : "The Truth About Drug Companies". MotherJones.com Interview, www.motherjones.com. August 31, 2004.
“Don't wait for permission to do something creative.”
“One of the emphases of the new democratic order is no impunity.”
“You can at any time decide to alter the course of your life; no one can take that away.”

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