Nevil Shute Quotes
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The sign of a good decision is the multiplicity of reasons for it.
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A man's reputation is not in his own keeping, but lies at the mercy of the profligacy of others. Calumny requires no proof.
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I don't like old people on a rock and roll stage. Me included.
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I tend to fly old airplanes and old sort of things that are nearly about as old as me. Biplanes and stuff like that.
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You minimize my moves in anyway, I must persuade you another way.
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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
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The merciful adjustment which nature makes when what cannot be cured must be endured.
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I will sleep no more but arise, You oceans that have been calm within me! how I feel you, fathomless, stirring, preparing unprecedented waves and storms.
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Follow your instinct. That's my message.
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The task of the positional player is systematically to accumulate slight advantages and try to convert temporary advantages into permanent ones, otherwise the player with the better position runs the risk of losing it.
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(Doc) Cramer told me I was hitting too much off the front foot and that I wasn't using the right kind of bat. I had been using a long, skinny stick and Cramer got me a thicker one.
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Hearing is a form of touch. You feel it through your body, and sometimes it almost hits your face.
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Give yourself five minutes to consider how you can turn a miserable situation to your benefit and that light bulb is going to click on.
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I am not a theologian or a philosopher. I am a story teller.
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I say you are a coward and you are; I think you hunt only to reassure yourself that you are not what you are: the weakest thing to ever walk the Earth. He will come for me and then we will be gone, and you will be helpless for all your hunting, because Westley and I are joined by the bond of love and you cannot track that, not with a thousand bloodhounds, and you cannot break it, not with a thousand swords.
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When punk rock came along, the one thing you were not supposed to be was musical.
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One should part from life as Odysseus parted from Nausicaa-blessing it rather than in love with it.
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I feel the deepest, heartfelt pity for any adult who has never been in love.
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In fact a man in love or one consumed with hatred creates symbols for himself, as a superstitious man does, from a passion of conferring uniqueness on things or persons. A man who knows nothing of symbols is one of Dante's sluggards. This is why art mirrors itself in primitive rites or strong passions, seeking for symbols, revolving round the primitive taste for savagery, for what is irrational (blood and sex).
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You can only do a thing for the first time once, and that goes for falling in love.
