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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Whereas a novice makes moves until he gets checkmated (proof), a Grand Master realizes 20 moves in advance that it’s futile to continue playing (conceptualizing).
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We desperately need to recognise that we are the guests, not the masters, of nature and adopt a new paradigm for development, based on the costs and benefits to all people, and bound by the limits of nature herself rather than the limits of technology and consumerism.
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Accept disgrace willingly... Accept being unimportant... Surrender yourself humbly; then you can be trusted to care for all things. Love the world as your own self; then you can truly care for all things.
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You can believe in God without believing in immortality, but it is hard to see how anyone can believe in immortality and not believe in God.
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The masters, robed, gowned, their attitudes varying from indulgent ennui to virtual coma.
