Patrick O'Brian Quotes
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I think you need brains to do any Shakespeare with any authority. I could do Shakespeare, but not with any authority.
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Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.
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I had just turned 10-years-old when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and plunged America into World War II.
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I liked to play dress-up.
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I'm 68 years old, and I'm as much a criminal now as I was at the age of 22. And, I'm even more of a dissident than I was then.
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Misanthropy is born, I think, out of an almost oppressive sense of loneliness, a conviction that there's no one on earth who understands you. I don't think misanthropes hate people: They hate that people hate them.
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Football matters so much to people, and they get very defensive - or angry.
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I'm not gonna be broke, like my mom was broke, my uncles were broke, my sisters didn't have money, my cousins on down.
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Outcome is simply the final score: Who won the game; what numbers came up in a roll of the dice; how high did a stock go. Outcome is the result, regardless of the method used to achieve it. It is not controllable.
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Working hard is great, being lazy sometimes is great, but failed potential is the worst.
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Feminism is universal. You can't just fight for one type of freedom or one type of female power. You know what? Muslim women want to cover up, and we have to fight for our right to do that, too.
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When I grew up, my family, we sat down, all of us to watch 'Good Times,' 'Sanford and Son,' all those shows that were out at that time.
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Of all the nonsense written about love, none is more absurd than the notion that ideal love is selfless. To love is to see myself in you and to wish to celebrate myself with you. What I love is the embodiment of my values in another person. Love is an act of self-assertion, self-expression and a celebration of being alive.
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All the stories I write come from someone I've met or some anecdote I've heard.
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I have a lot of stuff I want to talk about and offer up. It would be odd not to have ideas about something.
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Bob Hope: Let's not do any jokes we didn't plan on, eh.
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In the heartlands of Islam, from Saudi mansions to ISIS dungeons, there are still slaves, laboring, beaten, bought, sold, raped and disposed of in Mohammed's name.
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The liquor tasted good and here the women all were fast...You can't jump a jet planeLike you can a freight trainSo I'll best be on my wayIn the early morning rain
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'The Knick' is set in New York during the 1990s, and it takes place around a hospital called The Knickerbocker. It's about a team of surgeons and nurses who are on the cutting edge of medicine.
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That's the greatest compliment I can get: when somebody from Key West says, 'Hey, Bubba.' That means I'm in!
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The route of expropriation, and especially in energy matters, is not what most promotes investment or generates greater confidence.
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The principle of asceticism never was, nor ever can be, consistently pursued by any living creature. Let but one tenth part of the inhabitants of the earth pursue it consistently, and in a day's time they will have turned it into a Hell.
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One cannot afford to be a realist.
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'Jack,you have debauched my sloth.'
