William Jenkyn Quotes
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Bank failures are caused by depositors who don't deposit enough money to cover losses due to mismanagement.
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There is no other way of writing a novel than to begin at the beginning at to continue to the end.
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To do a really good interview, you have to be truly interested in the person.
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I'm actually going in to ER as the new British intern.
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I had a 100 percent voting record with the NRA, but I don't believe in bazookas in our schools.
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Pope Pius XII was meant to go and castigate Hitler for being a air quotes 'Genocidal Fuckhead … air quotes again with bunny rabbit ears'. But he didn't, he wimped out, and for that history has renamed that Pope as 'Pope Gutless Bastard I.'
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Well, June is, uh, National Dairy Month, and I'll be milking Deirdre later... Ain't that right baby.
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It's hard to believe that unscrupulous people would take advantage of the public's generosity at times like these, but it does happen,
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I think about people and events in terms of archetypes a lot.
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The only proper intoxication is conversation.
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Immortality is a belief grounded upon other men's sayings, that they knew it supernaturally; or that they knew those who knew them that knew others that knew it supernaturally.
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You can not lead a battle if you think you look silly on a horse.
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There is no reason inherent in the real resources available to us why we cannot move rapidly within the next two or three years to a state of genuine full employment.
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That practis'd falsehood under saintly shew, Deep malice to conceal, couch'd with revenge.
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When you take a child who's hollering like hell, sit him on your knee, and say "once upon a time", you stop him hollering. As long as you go on telling him a story, he will listen. Novelists who neglect this fundamental effect do so at their peril. They become what is known as the experimental novelist, and an experimental novel is not really a novel at all.
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It takes your mind off things when there's a cat in your lip and he's purring while you're petting him.
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My sex life is like shooting pool with a rope!
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There are many who are lip servants but not life servants.
