"Emotions weren't like washing. There was no call to peg them out for all the world to view."

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Source : Beryl Bainbridge (1989). “An awfully big adventure”, Gerald Duckworth & Company

Beryl Bainbridge

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“Let's stop teaching to the middle and start teaching to the student.”
“We only make a dupe of the friend whose advice we ask, for we never tell him all; and it is usually what we have left unsaid that decides our conduct.”
“Just make people better at something they want to be better at.”
“So far from having a materialistic tendency, the supposed introduction into the earth at successive geological periods of life,-sensation,-instinct,-the intelligence of the higher mammalia bordering on reason,-and lastly the improvable reason of Man himself, presents us with a picture of the ever-increasing dominion of mind over matter.”

Source : Charles Lyell (1863). “The Geological Evidences of the Antiquity of Man with Remarks on Theories of the Origin of Species by Variation by Charles Lyell”, p.506
“I absolutely love television. What's so great about TV is that I can tell 20 stories in a year. If I was working at a feature studio, I'd tell 1% of someone else's story, over the course of four years.”
“There was a lot of tension between my dad and his mother and brothers. Sometimes when I was over there, I remember thinking, "I don't want to get shot."”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“I never expected to be a movie star. It's not that I didn't want to be, I didn't think about it. I wanted to be an actor.”
“Earthworms will dance”

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