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“Frank Muir is affable. ‘We’re all fag ends in the gutter of life,’ he replies cheerfully to my observation that the timing of success is quite unpredictable … ‘One realises that all those things like talent, looks, skill and hard work really don’t get you anywhere.”
― Travelling to Work: Diaries 1988–1998 (Volume 3)
― Travelling to Work: Diaries 1988–1998 (Volume 3)
“It's true she was a flower. But a flower that thrives in the wrong place is a weed.”
― Wasted Beauty
― Wasted Beauty
“Lots of traffic heading into town. One dirty, smoke-belching van makes me so angry that if I’d been alongside I think I would have had a go at the driver. I’d rather see pollution wardens than parking wardens but I suppose there’s no money in pollution prevention.”
― Travelling to Work: Diaries 1988–1998 (Volume 3)
― Travelling to Work: Diaries 1988–1998 (Volume 3)
“My room, my books, my house, the garden, my interest in everything around me renewed by absence. This little world suddenly special, no longer commonplace … something to relish. It’s a remarkable feeling and one which I count as paradoxically one of the great pleasures of travel. The almost sensuous delight in the ordinary and commonplace.”
― Travelling to Work: Diaries 1988–1998 (Volume 3)
― Travelling to Work: Diaries 1988–1998 (Volume 3)
“A minicab with a disagreeable old driver. He began to talk about the IRA – ‘The only way to deal with that lot is to line them up and shoot them,’ he maintained. For the first time in a long while I was driven to uncontrollable anger and found myself telling this man old enough to be my father that his solution was ridiculous, dangerous and didn’t solve anything. ‘That’s what we used to do in Malaysia,’ he went on doggedly, but he didn’t really have the courage of his own bigotry and I felt oddly embarrassed, not by what I said, but by showing up what was not aggression so much as ignorance.”
― Travelling to Work: Diaries 1988–1998 (Volume 3)
― Travelling to Work: Diaries 1988–1998 (Volume 3)
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