Thomas Edward Yorke Quotes
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No one out there is interested in who did what to whom in Westminster politics.
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It was the only ambition I ever had - not to be a dancer or Hollywood movie star, but to be a housewife in a good marriage.
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Fear only goes where it's invited to stay.
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I'm getting on top of the plate like I did last year. I'm just trying to compensate and make adjustments. Running, I'm pretty much about half speed. That's about all I got.
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Just as modern motorways have no room for ox-carts or wandering pedestrians, so modern society has little place for lives and ways that are too eccentric.
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The books were a private part of me that I carried inside and guarded and didn't talk to anybody about; as long as I had the books I could convince myself I was different from the others and my life wasn't quite as stupid and pointless.
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We always misunderstood ourselves, and rarely understood others.
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The idea that we could have a child who escapes from the confines of the adult world and goes somewhere where he has power, both literally and metaphorically, really appealed to me.
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Prayer is the conduit through which power from heaven is brought to earth.
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When I was 16, the pot weeded out the men from the boys, there were the heads and the straights. Now it's almost like money can weed it out, you know?
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If you took away everything in the world that had to be invented, there'd be nothing left except a lot of people getting rained on.
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When in Boston, I shall be able to take you out to dinner, if not to bed. I should greatly prefer the latter, but I must accept my lot.
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You were never told that Saint-Tropez is paradise?
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Put simply the novel stands between us and the hardening concept of statistical man. There is no other medium in which we can live for so long and so intimately with a character. That is the service a novel renders.
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It's the way to educate your eyes. Stare. Pry, listen eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.
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Autumn seemed to arrive suddenly that year. The morning of the first September was crisp and golden as an apple.
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I have set my life upon a cast, And I will stand the hazard of the die.
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Open your mouth wide A universal sigh.
