Islands Quotes
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I stayed with them for about a year up there and, at night, worked over in Long Island at a club called The High Hat Club which was like a pseudo jazz / blues place.
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Crime writers adore islands. We love the sense of being trapped within a community apart, where normal codes of behavior, if not ignored, can be allowed to slip.
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Generally, I like all islands. There, it is easier to rule.
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There are several sorts of religions, not only in different parts of the island, but even in every town; some worshipping the sun, others the moon or one of the planets.
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The fact is, we are not islands and we are far more connected than we know.
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I'm French. I have not become an Englishman. I have the impression of living on an island called Arsenal. If you fancy a sightseeing tour of London, don't ask me. You would get lost.
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My first novel, 'Sacrifice,' was set on the Shetland Islands.
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It is our duty to preserve huge tracts of land in something resembling its native condition. The biological interactions necessary to insure the continuities of life are astonishingly complex, and cannot take place in islands of semiwilderness like the national parks.
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Islands in the streams, that is what we are.
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I don't want to be an island. I want to be more of a tourist attraction. You stop here, I take your money and you go.
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Every year I spend one month just sailing, but I still work when Im on the boat. You never separate work from leisure. A boat is like a magic world, like a little island.
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All justice is inherently social. Can someone on a desert island be either just or unjust?
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When people begin to talk about "our island story" my hackles rise. It is deluded and conservative.
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Friendship is an island that you retreat to and you all fall on the floor and laugh at all the other ninnies that don't have enough brains to have your good taste.
