"When my first novel was published, I went in great excitement round bookshops in central London to see if they had stocked it."

-- Antony Beevor

#London Quotes #Firsts Quotes #Excitement Quotes

“In Spain and Italy I would not have a life among the fans. Everyone wants to touch you, own you and approach you. I try to be as kind as possible to all my fans, but in those countries I could not do it. There they ask too much from you.”
“We love those people who give with humility, or who accept with ease.”
“We have no government and no laws, if by law is meant a stereotyped convention supported by force, and not to be altered without the aid of cumbersome machinery.”

Source : Olaf Stapledon (1931). “Last and First Men, & Star Maker: Two Science-fiction Novels”, Courier Corporation
“For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.”
“I sit at my door, smoking a cigarette and sipping my absinthe, and I enjoy every day without a care in the world”
“I think there is a scientific approach to it and there is a political approach to it and an economical approach to it. All of this combined, we might find a solution.”
“To inform, and, therefore to reconnoitre , this is the first and constant duty of the advanced guard.”

Source : Ferdinand Foch (1920). “The Principles of War”
“Do not think that you can fight corruption without while you let corruption fester within.”

Source : Lyman Abbott (1899). “The Life that Really is”

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