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More than a Brit. English! English as a maypole! English as torture! English as hypocrisy, pederasty, and the Parliament of Fowles!
“We are merely the stars’ tennis-balls, Ned, struck and bandied which way please them.” “You don’t believe that. You believe in will. You told me so.” “Like anyone with a sliver of honesty in them, I believe what I find I believe when I wake up each morning. Sometimes I can only think we are determined by the writing in our genes; sometimes it seems to me that we are made or unmade by our upbringings. On better days, it is true that I hope with some conviction that we and we alone make ourselves everything that we are.” “Nature, Nurture, or Nietzsche, in fact.”
“Don’t confuse imagination with fantasy. Imagination is the ability to project yourself into the minds of others. It is the most hardheaded and clear-eyed faculty we have.
“A mental patient, you mark my words.” “Daddy, he’s the sanest man either of us has ever met, and you know it.” “He can’t even open a champagne bottle!” “And what proof of lunacy is that? You can’t open a pickle jar.”
