Celia Fremlin Quotes
In these days there are few sights more terrifying than that of a well-dressed man with a notebook looking at a piece of land.
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When you have that connection to say, 'I'm going to play for something bigger than myself,' man, you have a chance to do something good.
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This I know; the spirit of Man cannot be stopped.
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The sort of man you will make of yourself, how you will be regarded by the world, whether people will admire and respect or despise you, whether you win the approval or the condemnation of your Maker - all this is in your own hands.
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I'm a man of different types of flavors and tastes. I like listening to things that inspire me. Older music, when instruments were being played, not just people hitting buttons. It's manlier. You're touching things to make sounds appear.
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How can you not love a man banging on the drums? He knows how to keep a rhythm.
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I was a Labour Party man but I found myself to the left of the Labour party in Nelson, militant as that was. I came to London and in a few months I was a Trotskyist.
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No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
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War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.
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It is a true miracle when a man finally sees himself as his only opposition.
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Necessity makes an honest man a knave.
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In order to be rated as good as a good man in the field of her earnings, she must show herself better than he. She must be more steady, or more trustworthy, or more skilled, or more cheap in order to have the same chance of employment.
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I can say with confidence there has never been a man or a woman - not me, not Bill, nobody - more qualified than Hillary Clinton to serve as president of the United States of America.
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If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.
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The hype man's job is to get everybody out of their seats and on the dance floor to have a good time.
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There is no god, so how can I consider myself a god? God is the greatest lie invented by man.
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'The One-Eyed Man' is a novel that was one I never intended to write.
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I was into Spider Man when I was a kid and that was the only comic I've ever read.
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Man may be considered as having a twofold origin - natural, which is common and the same to all - patronymic, which belongs to the various families of which the whole human race is composed.
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The camera never lies, man. I've learned that. If you allow it, it will see right through you, which is kind of cool.
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I torture my mother with all my problems, that poor woman.
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The more you have, the more you are occupied, the less you give. But the less you have the more free you are. Poverty for us is a freedom. It is not mortification, a penance. It is joyful freedom. There is no television here, no this, no that. But we are perfectly happy.
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I'd spend every summer in Longview on my grandfather's farm. It was a tiny little town divided by a river, which was the segregation line: that side white, this side black. And meanwhile, I lived in Compton - basically, another whole world sealed into 10 square blocks. It's interesting how insular an environment can be.
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I was born in a very poor family. I used to sell tea in a railway coach as a child. My mother used to wash utensils and do lowly household work in the houses of others to earn a livelihood. I have seen poverty very closely. I have lived in poverty. As a child, my entire childhood was steeped in poverty.
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In these days there are few sights more terrifying than that of a well-dressed man with a notebook looking at a piece of land.
