John Lanchester Quotes

I grew up abroad, and when I first passed through London in the 1970s, it seemed a drab and provincial place.

John Lanchester

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It's not enough to play a song: you have to inhabit it.

Joe Bonamassa

SongEnoughYouPlayInhabit

Perhaps not as badly applied and not as obvious, but for thousands of years, people have worn makeup on stage.

Robert Smith

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Walt Whitman defended the sacredness of love, the purity of passion - the passion that builds every home and fills the world with art and song.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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I have a very wonderful bath ritual.

Michael Bastian

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Buying books was a way anyone could acquire a work of art for very little.

Sol LeWitt

WorkArtWayLittleBuyingBooks

Petty thievery is a more profitable job than pool hustling, which it resembles, requires far less talent and training, and is equally devoid of promise.

Robert Byrne

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I'm afraid love may not exist the way I want it to.

Rory Freedman

LoveWantWayAfraidMayExist

Those who remember Washington's cold war culture in the 1980s will recall the shocked reactions to Reagan's intervention. People interested in foreign policy were astonished when in 1985 he met alone at Geneva - alone, not a single strategic thinker at his elbow! - with the Soviet Communist master Gorbachev.

Russell Baker

AloneCultureWarPeopleColdWill

Yemen is one of the most dangerous spots in the world.

Michael McCaul

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For some reason, I like seeing people feel emotional.

Millie Bobby Brown

PeopleFeelSeeingReasonEmotional

In order to live in a different country, you have to love something there. You have to love something there. You have to love either the spirit of the laws or the economic opportunities, or the - well, history of the country, the language perhaps, literature.

Joseph Brodsky

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I've seen the human condition under the most trying of circumstances.

Chris Gibson

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