Edmund Crispin Quotes
The masters, robed, gowned, their attitudes varying from indulgent ennui to virtual coma.
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I've always been happy with my body.
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I've never tried to manipulate my image.
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I think as a student I ended up liking so many different and conflicting things.
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I consider a work of art as a product of calculations, calculations that are frequently unknown to the author himself.
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Excessive animal protein is at the core of many chronic diseases.
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I want to live for something. I don't want to live to get charity food to give me enough strength to go back to get more charity food.
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To me, my recipes are priceless.
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Harry can paint but I can't. He has our father's talent while I, on the other hand, am about the biggest idiot on a piece of canvas. I did do a couple of drawings at Eton which were put on display. Teachers thought they were examples of modern art, but in fact, I was just trying to paint a house!
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I count myself in nothing else so happy as in a soul remembering my good Friends
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I should dread to disfigure the beautiful ideal of the memories of illustrious persons with incongruous features, and to sully the imaginative purity of classical works with gross and trivial recollections.
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He who only tastes his error will long dwell with it, will take delight in it as in a singular felicity; while he who drains it to the dregs will, if he be not crazy, find it to be what it is.
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Love is the oxygen of the soul.
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Do what you love and love what you do. Don’t do anything for money. Everything should be for love.
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English football is in a bad way because the foreign players here are so good, so dominant.
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In 1958, my father graduated from secondary school as the highest-achieving student in the state of Kansas, earning a five-year scholarship to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He turned it down. For someone raised in a remote farming town, this would have been his opportunity to transform his life, a ticket to a bigger world.
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When we look through the lens of each others' weaknesses, we make others' strengths irrelevant and their weaknesses more evident.
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Obviously my game wasn't too good at Augusta, I had a couple of technical faults, the posture wasn't too good. It's a bit unfortunate because I was playing a lot of good golf, but when I got sick flu before The Masters, that was bad timing and I wasn't quite myself.
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The masters, robed, gowned, their attitudes varying from indulgent ennui to virtual coma.
