Samuel Johnson Quotes

I have, all my life long, been lying till noon; yet I tell all young men, and tell them with great sincerity, that nobody who does not rise early will ever do any good.

Samuel Johnson

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Not all ideas will be accepted, but every idea deserves its own space, and every idea deserves to be expressed.

Palaniappan Chidambaram
- Space
- Ideas
- Own
In 1949 - my father stayed on in Shanghai after the war. But in 1949, the Communists took over the whole of China, and in fact, my father was caught by the Communists in Shanghai. And he was there for about a year until he was finally able to get out.

J. G. Ballard
- War
- Father
- Year
The cultural decoding that many American writers require has become an even harder task in the age of globalisation. The experience they describe has grown more private; its essential background, the busy larger world, has receded.

Pankaj Mishra
Writers shouldn't have lives that are interesting. It gets in the way of your work.

Salman Rushdie
- Work
- Way
- Interesting
Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.

Karl Liebknecht
- Party
- Democracy
- Social
I don't know anyone who's suffered lung cancer.

Iain Glen
- Know
- Cancer
- Lung