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May. 22nd, 2012 10:10 pmMost readers live in London: they are run-down, querulous, constipated, soot-ridden, stained with asphalt and nicotine and, as a result of sitting all day on a chair in a box and eating too fast, slightly mad sufferers from indigestion.- Cyril Connolly, Enemies Of Promise
On Saturday 22 December
Nov. 17th, 2007 10:29 amI shall be at a wedding. Sunday 23rd will, therefore, be spent travelling several hundred miles onna train. It's the best date for the two people most urgently concerned, but that doesn't stop me being mildly grumpy about it.
Also I have finally replaced laptop battery, and can once more roam untethered, quite possibly into moving traffic.
Also I have finally replaced laptop battery, and can once more roam untethered, quite possibly into moving traffic.
Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.Robert Fulghum
Do not look at the faces in the illustrated papers. Look at the faces in the street.Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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Jun. 17th, 2007 12:25 amWe all know that Prime Ministers are wedded to the truth, but like other married couples they sometimes live apart.- "Saki" (H.H. Munro)
No amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred of the Tory party. So far as I am concerned, they are lower than vermin.- Aneurin Bevan
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May. 13th, 2007 04:04 pmI am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.- A. Whitney Brown
Beauty is whatever gives joy.- Edna St. Vincent Millay
An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.- Aldous Huxley
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Feb. 11th, 2007 10:18 pmThe best and most overwhelmingly one-up way to go to an exhibition with a person is to be in love with the person and for the person to be in love with you. It is no bad thing to hold hands with the person even if she is not in love with you, as long as she does not look grumpy.-Stephen Potter, One-Upmanship
Charming colour scheme
Dec. 20th, 2006 04:01 pmLocal butcher has turkeys hanging in the window. With wing primaries and tail feathers left, and carefully alternating black, white, black, white...
Nevertheless, before all be given up, let a walk in a wood be tried.- Anthony Trollope
After your first two thousand difficulty begins, but until you have ten thousand volumes the less said about your library the better. Then you may begin to speak.- Augustine Birrell
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Nov. 12th, 2006 11:12 pmWhy is it that after a long and enthusiastic dinner party involving many many lots wine I wake up free from all care, but the day after a sober and early night I feel as if I've been run over by a hovercraft full of eels?
Absurdity, n. A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
Man, at his best, remains a sort of one-lunged animal, never completely rounded and perfect, as a cockroach, say, is perfect.- H.L. Mencken
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Oct. 31st, 2006 11:53 pmWell, I can remove "snap a key off in a lock" from my life-long to do list. And it was very nearly as irritating as it sounds.
Also there is parkin, that well-known dark gingerbread and occasional tarmac substitute.
So, on balance, things are fine.
Also there is parkin, that well-known dark gingerbread and occasional tarmac substitute.
So, on balance, things are fine.
The majority of husbands remind one of nothing so much as an orangutan trying to play the violin.- Honoré de Balzac
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May. 11th, 2006 09:26 pmA hearty slating always does me good, particularly if it be well written. It begins by enlisting my professional respect; it ends by making me examine my ideas coldly in the privacy of my chamber. Not, of course, that I usually revise them, but I at least examine them.H. L. Mencken
