There's no room for demons when you're self-possessed.
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Carrie Fisher
Archie Henderson has won no awards, written no books and never played any representative sport. He was an under-11 tournament-winning tennis player as a boy, but left the game when he discovered rugby where he was one of the worst flyhalves he can remember. This...
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Archie Henderson
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, which is a pity because this week the National Association of Beholders wrote to tell me that I've got a face like a rucksack full of dented bells.
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Charlie Brooker
Lincoln said his spiky hair had "a way of getting up in the world".
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Harold Holzer
I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
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Oscar Wilde
More Quotes By Gregory David Roberts
If we only fell in love with people who were perfect for us...then there wouldn't be so much fuss about love in the first place.
In our twenties, when there is still so much time ahead of us, time that seems ample for a hundred indecisions, for a hundred visions and revisions–we draw a card, and we must decide right then and there whether to keep that card and discard...
But the Count hadn’t the temperament for revenge; he hadn’t the imagination for epics; and he certainly hadn’t the fanciful ego to dram of empires restored. No. His model for mastering his circumstances would be a different sort of captive altogether: an Anglican washed ashore....
Ever since [that day], a small uncertainty had buzzed between us. It was a sense of chemistry that had been a little elusive, a little imprecise, until now.
By their very nature, human beings are so capricious, so complex, so delightfully contradictory, that they deserve not only our consideration, but our reconsideration--and our unwavering determination to withhold our opinion until we have engaged with them in every possible setting at every possible hour.
