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Mervyn Peake quote: "It was not often that Flay approved of happiness in others."
It was not often that Flay approved of happiness in others. Mervyn Peake
Philosophers, for example, often fail to recognize that their remarks about the universe apply also to themselves and their remarks. If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so. Alan Watts
I am very astonished that the scientific picture of the real world around me is very deficient. It gives a lot of factual information, puts all our experience in a magnificently consistent order, but it is ghastly silent about all and sundry that is really near to our heart, that really matters to us. It cannot tell us a word about red and blue, bitter and sweet, physical pain and physical delight; it knows nothing of beautiful and ugly, good or bad, God and eternity. Science sometimes... Erwin Schrodinger
Too many people get credit for being good, when they are only being passive. They are too often praised for being broadminded when they are so broadminded they can never make up their minds about anything. Fulton J. Sheen
Poetry most often communicates emotions, not directly, but by creating imaginatively the grounds for those emotions. It therefore communicates something more than the emotion; only by means of that something more does it communicate the emotion at all. C. S. Lewis
Mark Twain quote: "Politicians are like diapers. They need to be changed often..."
Politicians are like diapers. They need to be changed often and for the same reason. Mark Twain
One grave in every graveyard belongs to the ghouls. Wander any graveyard long enough and you will find it - water stained and bulging, with cracked or broken stone, scraggly grass or rank weeds about it, and a feeling, when you reach it, of abandonment. It may be colder than the other gravestones, too, and the name on the stone is all too often impossible to read. If there is a statue on the grave it will be headless or so scabbed with fungus and lichens as to look like fungus itself. If one... Neil Gaiman
Because, as we know, almost anything can be read into any book if you are determined enough. This will be especially impressed on anyone who has written fantastic fiction. He will find reviewers, both favourable and hostile, reading into his stories all manner of allegorical meanings which he never intended. (Some of the allegories thus imposed on my own books have been so ingenious and interesting that I often wish I had thought of them myself.) C. S. Lewis
Sigmund Freud quote: "The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a..."
The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life. Sigmund Freud
I haven't any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can't conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Every time I read Pride and Prejudice I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone. Mark Twain
Terry Prachett quote: "Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of..."
Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom. Terry Prachett
I have a bad habit of starting a book and reading just far enough to make sure I want to read it and look forward to reading and then putting it to one side while I break the ice on a couple more. In that way, when I feel dull and depressed which is too often, I know I have something to read late at night when I do most of it and not that horrid blank feeling of not having anybody to talk to or listen to. Raymond Chandler
J. R. R. Tolkien quote: "A small oversight, but it proved fatal. Small oversights often..."
A small oversight, but it proved fatal. Small oversights often do. J. R. R. Tolkien
Doug Coupland quote: "You are paralyzed by the fact that cruelty is often amusing."
You are paralyzed by the fact that cruelty is often amusing. Doug Coupland
She now lost every expectation of pleasure. They were confined for the evening at different tables, and she had nothing to hope, but that his eyes were so often turned towards her side of the room, as to make him play as unsuccessfully as herself Jane Austen

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