T. H. White Quotes
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You run a grave risk, my boy," said the magician, "of being turned into a piece of bread, and toasted.
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All forms of collectivism are mistaken, according to the human skull.
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Yes, that is the equality of man. Slaughter anybody who is better than you are, and then we shall be equal soon enough. All equally dead.
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The destiny of man is an individualistic destiny.
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Wars are never fought for one reason," he said. "They are fought for dozens of reasons, in a muddle.
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The Victorians had not been anxious to go away for the weekend. The Edwardians, on the contrary, were nomadic.
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It is only people who are lacking, or bad, or inferior, who have to be good at things. You have always been full and perfect, so you had nothing to make up for.
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You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then - to learn.
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Grown-ups have developed an unpleasant habit of comforting themselves for their degradation by pretending that children are childish.
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War is like a fire. One man may start it, but it will spread all over. It is not about any one thing in particular.
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I would recommend a solo flight to all prospective suicides. It tends to make clear the issue of whether one enjoys being alive or not.
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...All endeavours which are directed to a purely worldly end...contain within themselves the germs of their own corruption.
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Were they, for some purpose almost too cunning for belief, only disguised as themselves?
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"The best thing for being sad," replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. That's the only thing that never fails.
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If God is supposed to be merciful,' [Arthur] retorted, 'I don't see why He shouldn't allow people to stumble into heaven, just as well as climb there
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Perhaps he does not want to be friends with you until he knows what you are like. With owls, it is never easy-come-easy-go.
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God is love, the parson whined.
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I will tell you something else, King, which may be a surprise for you. It will not happen for hundreds of years, but both of us are to come back.
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It is good to put your life in other people's hands.
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Why can't you harness Might so that it works for Right? I know it sounds nonsense, but, I mean, you can't just say there is no such thing. The Might is there, in the bad half of people, and you can't neglect it. You can't cut it out but you might be able to direct it, if you see what I mean, so that it was useful instead of bad.
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We cannot build the future by avenging the past.
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Only fools want to be great.
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The bravest people are the ones who don’t mind looking like cowards.
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If it takes a million years for a fish to become a reptile, has Man, in our few hundred, altered out of recognition?