B.S. Johnson Quotes
“When Jenny left me, betrayed me for a cripple whom she imagined to need her more, my mother said never mind, perhaps he would die and then I could have her back again.”
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I was in a Nativity play as a kid. Back then, I played the donkey.
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I'm not coming back to play.
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I don't really take a step back too often to see what's going on.
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I promise to do everything I can to earn back the trust of everyone I've disappointed.
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It would be incredible to work with Stanley Kubrick and go back in time.
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I love Winston Churchill; I think he had the grace of coming and the grace of leaving - when things were hard he was there, and when it was time to leave, he left.
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I think we can leave mullets back in the '80s. I'm really not a big fan of them.
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I tend not to look back. It's confusing.
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All that we are not stares back at what we are.
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My body will never go back to what it was, and I wouldn't expect it to after three babies.
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Well, you can't argue with somebody that won't argue back.
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He that has satisfied his thirst turns his back on the well.
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One thing is certain: We can't go back. The musical will never be the same as it was.
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Another time I cracked two of the vertebrae in my back and broke a rib.
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The Rock will always come back to us.
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Back in 1968, when I was 30, my entire life blew up. I had a life plan, and it collapsed for no rational reason.
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I'm a bass player from way back and Paul is a guitar player and we've been in many bands.
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Back in the 1960s, the number of deaths each year from unintentional poisoning was 15 times greater than it is today.
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The ultimate search engine would basically understand everything in the world, and it would always give you the right thing. And we're a long, long ways from that.
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Self-parody is the first portent of age.
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You may buy from me in your own language, but sell to me in mine.
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I tried to imagine myself part of a pack of guys who picked up local public school girls on weekends. It was hard to envision, but I was definitely willing to try. Not the pickup part. Just the being in a posse part.
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“When Jenny left me, betrayed me for a cripple whom she imagined to need her more, my mother said never mind, perhaps he would die and then I could have her back again.”
