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Cyril Haearn wrote:After nourishment, shelter, and companionship,quality stories are the thing[s] we most need

Philip Pullman/Grauniad

FIFY and Pullman.

Heaven knows there's way to many crap stoies out there!

PS,Pullman is an awesome story teller with real depth and insight :wink:
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Cyril Haearn wrote:After nourishment, shelter, and companionship, stories are the thing[s] we most need

Philip Pullman/Grauniad

Just reading short stories by Olga Tocarczuk, she won the literature nobel prize for Poland, very good
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'The cockerell makes most noise, but the hen lays the eggs'
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You will not become a saint through other people’s sins.
Anton Chekhov

The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
Marcus Aurelius

Someone left the cake out in the rain
I don't think that I can take it
'Cause it took so long to bake it
And I'll never have that recipe again

- Jimmy Webb

The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.
- Michelangelo

Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But since no one was listening, everything must be said again.
- André Gide
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There is nothing worse than a young pessimist

Except maybe an old optimist :wink:
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I do not like work, but I do not like doing nothing at all for long
I like reading, it is somewhere in between
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I like work, I could sit and look at it for hours.
It's the same the whole world over
It's the poor what gets the blame
It's the rich what gets the pleasure
Isn't it a blooming shame?
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Mike Sales wrote:I like work, I could sit and look at it for hours.

Jerome K Jerome wrote that :wink:
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The person who understands a country and society best is a stranger who came and stayed
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The German sense of humor is no laughing matter
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Scientists say that Hydrogen is the most plentiful element in the universe.
The scientists are wrong.
Stupidity is.

Frank Zappa
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You've heard of the sights of the famed London city
Where everything there is both ugly and pretty
But London is out of comparison quite
With Stalybridge market on a Saturday night
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Maybe I'm laughing my way to disaster
Maybe my race has been run
Maybe I'm blind
To the fate of mankind
But what can be done?

Paul Simon
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Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.

and

It is easier to apologise than to ask permission.
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A miser gets the greatest pleasure from denying herself a treat
Gottfried Benn
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Overheard in a tram:
'Please to excuse me, but I shall not apologise. Sorry!'
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As applied to some posters on this Forum:

"You can't win an argument with a fool"

My Grandfather, that was, giving me ever more business advice.

Happy days, R.I.P.
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