Simon Hoggart (Simon David Hoggart) Quotes
If you read the 'Daily Mail,' you would imagine that the British middle classes lead lives of unremitting misery.
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I'm not saving lives.
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Love is what we aspire to most in our lives.
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There are so many young women coming up through the ranks. Adele is an amazing singer. Beyonce has great stage presence. She's just a beautiful woman. I love how everyone has just taken charge of their lives and careers.
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No damn man kills me and lives.
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I love people, watching people interact. It's a lot of psychology. We learn about ourselves by watching other people's lives on the screen.
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I love things that are old and glittery, that come with layers of glamour and past lives.
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He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives.
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Classes? Categories? Was that what we had come to?
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Is there anything more true than human pain? Is there anything more sincere than the cry for help from those who suffer? Only a great wave of mankind's pity can surmount an immense wave of human misery?
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The pleasure of reading biography, like that of reading letters, derives from the universal hunger to penetrate other lives.
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So many people have that relationship. The companionship. The connection. To our - to other beings, our pets. I hate to call them pets. But you know, to other creatures that we share our lives with.
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Such is the strength of the burden of habit. Here I have the power to be but do not wish it. There I wish to be but lacks the power. On both grounds, I'm in misery.
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Through our sunless lanes creeps Poverty with her hungry eyes, and Sin with his sodden face follows close behind her. Misery wakes us in the morning and Shame sits with us at night.
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She lives the poetry she cannot write.
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No partnership matters more. The relationship with the one you marry provides 90 percent of your happiness and 90 percent of your misery.
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We must be proactive in our love in order for it to change our lives.
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It blew my mind that what I was thinking was actually applicable to people's lives, and it certainly revolutionized family.
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It would be a fine thing, in which I hardly dare believe, to pass our lives near each other, hypnotized by our dreams.
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Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain?
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Work, finish, publish.
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I don't claim to have all the answers; after all, I'm just a comedian who reads a lot.
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But I like going to church. If you've been brought up in the Church of England, it feels like visiting an elderly relative. And I think it's important that part of the kids' education is knowing about the Bible.
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It appears likely that there was no normative pattern of church government in the apostolic age, and that the organizational structure of the church is no essential element in the theology of the church.
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If you read the 'Daily Mail,' you would imagine that the British middle classes lead lives of unremitting misery.
