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And yet sometimes she worried about those musty old books were doing to her. Some people majored in English to prepare for law school. Others became journalists. Jeffrey Eugenides
Nowhere is the English genius of domesticity more notably evident than in the festival of afternoon tea. The [...] chink of cups and the saucers tunes the mind to happy repose. George Gissing
I went to Cambridge University. I took a number of baths - and a degree in English. I worried a lot about girls and what had happened to my bike. Later I became I writer and worked on a lot of things that were almost incredibly successful but in fact just failed to see the light of day. Other writers will know what I mean. Douglas Adams
(James Joyce, in conversation with Carl Jung:)"Literary artists know more about the human mind than you fellers have a hope in hell of knowing. Ha. My craft is ebbing. I am yung and easily freudened. One of these days I'll show the lot of you what the unconscious mind is really like. I don't need any of you. In a sense I am Freud."Jung looked gloomily guilty at the name. "Yes?"What's Freud in English?"Joy."Joy and Joyce. There's little enough difference. Except that I add C and E for Creative... Anthony Burgess
Oscar Wilde quote: "American girls are as clever at concealing their parents as..."
American girls are as clever at concealing their parents as English women are at concealing their past. Oscar Wilde
Marlon Brando quote: "I had to read Wuthering Heights for English and I never..."
I had to read Wuthering Heights for English and I never enjoyed a book in all my life as much as that one. Marlon Brando
Pat Conroy quote: "The English language on her tongue became a smoke-screen,..."
The English language on her tongue became a smoke-screen, without her eyes changing expression in the least. Pat Conroy
I'd write of people and places like I knew, and I'd make my characters talk everyday English; and I'd let the sun rise and set in the usual quiet way without much fuss over the fact. If I had to have villains at all, I'd give them a chance, Anne--I'd give them a chance. There are some terrible bad men the world, I suppose, but you'd have to go a long piece to find them...But most of us have got a little decency somewhere in us. Keep on writing, Anne. L. M. Montgomery
The women in my life have all been librarians, English teachers, or booksellers. If they couldn't speak pidgin Tolstoy, articulate Henry James, or give me directions to Usher and Ox, it was no go. I have always longed for education, and pillow talk's the best. Ray Bradbury
Blanche: No, I have the misfortune of being an English instructor. I attempt to instill a bunch of bobby-soxers and drugstore Romeos with a reverence for Hawthorne and Whitman and Poe! Tennessee Williams
I would browse for half an hour or so in the secondhand bookstores in the neighborhood. Owning my own 'library' was my only materialistic ambition; in fact, trying to decide which two of these thousands of books to buy that week, I would frequently get so excited that by the time the purchase was accomplished I had to make use of the bookseller's toilet facilities. I don't believe that either microbe or laxative has ever affected me so strongly as the discovery that I was all at once the... Philip Roth
William Golding quote: "We're not savages. We're English."
We're not savages. We're English. William Golding
George Bernard Shaw quote: "The English are not a very spiritual people, so they invented..."
The English are not a very spiritual people, so they invented cricket to give them some idea of eternity. George Bernard Shaw
There was something ghost-like and insubstantial about gases to these early chemists. They called liquids that turned into gases easily, "spirits." Methyl alcohol, they called "wood spirit"; ethyl alcohol, "wine spirit." Even today, alcoholic beverages are frequently referred to as "spirits." (Modern Arabs, from whose language the word "alcohol" was taken, call ethyl alcohol "spirit" from the English. This is a queer exchange.) Isaac Asimov
Peter Ustinov quote: "I imagine hell like this: Italian punctuality, German humour..."
I imagine hell like this: Italian punctuality, German humour and English wine. Peter Ustinov

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