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Life is full of a thousand red herrings, and it takes the history of a civilisation to work out which are the red herrings and which aren't.

— Peter Greenaway

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This book has neither the virtue of irony nor deserves the sympathy reserved for the truly mad.

Whispering can be a rest from a noisy world of words.

If Good approved of his creature's creation, He breathed the painted clay-model into life by signing His name.

Get the Titanic sailing correctly before you worry about the deck chairs.

Why illustrate a great piece of writing whose very advocacy and evocation and efficacy lies within its very existence as writing?

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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past, — so good night!

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