"I think what I like to do is to begin with the ordinary and find the extraordinary in it."

-- Graham Swift

#Thinking Quotes #Ordinary Quotes #Extraordinary Quotes

“While I was a voracious movie-goer as a boy, I never put writing and films together in my mind.”

Source : "It's an intimate love story between two men. Try selling that to Warner Bros". Interview with Andrew Pulver, www.theguardian.com. November 17, 2000.
“Now that [Reagan's] place in history is secure, [liberals] are trying to remake him. A pernicious myth is that Reagan and Tip O'Neill were great friends.”
“The whole drama of the world is such tragedy that I am weary of the spectacle.”
“Excessive liberty leads both nations and individuals into excessive slavery. [Lat., Nimia libertas et populis et privatis in nimiam servitutem cadit.]”
“Early in my career I was much more confident in the almost omniscient powers of a reporter, because you could find anything out and then write the definitive piece about it. And as I got older, I got much more humble about trying to learn everything, with what eludes you, especially with history.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“In a small cathedral town where changes are few, there are always people who remember who used to live in a particular house, what happened to them there and afterwards, and so on.”
“The next day, to the joy of all of Arthur's court, Sir Gareth was wed to the fair Lady Lyonesse of Cornwall. All who beheld the couple declared that ne'er had so handsome a knight wed so beautiful a maiden. At the same time, Sir Gaheris was wedded to the Lady Lynet, younger sister to the Lady Lyonesse. They looked alright too.”
“I am going to keep having fun every day I have left, because there is no other way of life. You just have to decide whether you are a Tigger or an Eeyore.”

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