"God, I'm such a lazy writer - I can't even think up new names."

-- Dennis Potter

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“They can't find my house now because I keep it very quiet where I live.”
“One of the things I like about my profession, and that I find healthy, is that one constantly has to break oneself to pieces.”
“The redundant population, necessarily occasioned by the prevalence of early marriages, must be repressed by occasional famines, and by the custom of exposing children, which, in times of distress, is probably more frequent than is ever acknowledged to Europeans.”

Source : Thomas Malthus (2015). “An Essay on the Principle of Population and Other Writings”, p.63, Penguin UK
“Gold and iron at the present day, as in ancient times, are the rulers of the world; and the great events in the world of mineral art are not the discovery of new substances, but of new and rich localities of old ones.”

Source : William Whewell (1856). “Lectures on the Progress of Arts and Science, Resulting from the Great Exhibition in London ...”, p.22
“May poetry and God's name have mercy on us!”
“These are times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed.”
“It's nice, when fishing, to catch a fish. But it doesn't really matter if you don't. What you always catch is a quiet time sitting at the water's edge, or in a gently rocking boat, a silent time of water and sky and the movement of natural things.”
“I do not understand how on earth you can become a writer without seeing the world.”

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