William Arthur Dunkerley Quotes
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I was brought up with beautiful music - Nat King Cole and Glen Miller from my dad, and my mum loved Judy Garland and Doris Day - brilliant stuff. Through my brothers and sisters I heard David Bowie and The Specials, The Carpenters, Meatloaf and The Rolling Stones.
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It seems to me that an unjust law is no law at all.
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She knew what all smart women knew: Laughter made you live better and longer.
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It's just not my nature to go around idolizing people.
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The extras are a nice bonus feature, but the main incentive is the musical experience.
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Christianity began as a religion of the poor and dispossessed - farmers, fishermen, Bedouin shepherds. There's a great lure to that kind of simplicity and rigor - the discipline, the call to action.
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In Westerns you were permitted to kiss your horse but never your girl.
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You cannot put 50 years of the Marvel universe into a movie. It's impossible.
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Long live the liberation of the workers off all countries from the infernal chasm of war, exploitation and slavery!
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I always have a lot of things going on because some things take years to make and others take five minutes. I like that there's always something going on. Working doesn't have such a momentous feel - like it's all or nothing.
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In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it.
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Apparently, Mayella's recital had given her confidence, but it was not her father's brash kind: there was something stealthy about hers, like a steady-eyed cat with a twitchy tail.
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'Brotherhood: Homage to Claudius Ptolemy'
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The junk-bond era has also spawned something that calls itself New Historicism. This seems to be a refuge for English majors without critical talent or broad learning in history or political science. ... To practice it, you must apparently lack all historical sense.
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Any woman who stays with her abuser beyond the first incident is complicitous with him.
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This country … abounds in that Cuba is a heaven in the spiritual sense of the word, and we prefer to die in heaven than serve in hell.
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'Poly' means more than one, and ticks are bloodsucking parasites.
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To understand the actual world as it is, not as we should wish it to be, is the beginning of wisdom.
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Obstinate people can be divided into the opinionated, the ignorant, and the boorish.
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I believe I do much better for the time being by first copying some good things than by working without that foundation
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He held up a book then. “I'm going to read it to you for relax.” “Does it have any sports in it?” “Fencing. Fighting. Torture. Poison. True Love. Hate. Revenge. Giants. Hunters. Bad men. Good men. Beautifulest Ladies. Snakes. Spiders... Pain. Death. Brave men. Cowardly men. Strongest men. Chases. Escapes. Lies. Truths. Passion. Miracles.” “Sounds okay,” I said and I kind of closed my eyes.
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I feel very at home in woodlands and could easily live there. I should have been one of Robin Hood's men.
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And every man decideth The way his soul shall go.