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“We're Englishmen. For us the road always goes home again.”
― To Calais, In Ordinary Time
― To Calais, In Ordinary Time
“This day will go down in history!' said Jones.
'Every day goes down in history,' said the boss.”
― Mother Night
'Every day goes down in history,' said the boss.”
― Mother Night
“It was usual for Gervas Leigh to lose everything not actually attached to his person by a string, the habit of dissociation from material things being the first to be acquired by men of saintly character.”
― Towers in the Mist
― Towers in the Mist
“Mind you do think. Don't just take out your feelings and look at them, which is what passes for thought with most of us pitiful, self-centred creatures. Look at the question from everyone's point of view.”
― A City of Bells
― A City of Bells
“Why untidy hair and an inability to make oneself understood should be the hall-mark of genius I have never been able to understand.”
― A City of Bells
― A City of Bells
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