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“The train slowed down at the approach to shrewsbury station and glided between the eleventh-century abbey and the stadium of shrewsbury town football club. Two sacred arenas where men chanted and waited for a miracle that never came.”
― Malcolm Pryce, The Unbearable Lightness Of Being In Aberystwyth

“Every Autumn now my thoughts return to snow. Snow is something I identify myself with. Like my father, I am a snow person.”
― Charlie English

“Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

“This man has talent, that man genius
And here's the strange and cruel difference:
Talent gives pence and his reward is gold,
Genius gives gold and gets no more than pence.”
― William Henry Davies

“Scotland has no unity except on the map”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

“I'm always amazed to hear of air crash victims so badly mutilated that they have to be identified by their dental records. What I can't understand is, if they don't know who you are, how do they know who your dentist is?”
― Paul Merton

“with the centenary of 1914 rapidly approaching it is high time to stop regarding the first world war as current affairs and douglas haig as our contemporary”
― Gary Sheffield

“Libraries are fascinating places; sometimes you feel you are under the canopy of a railway station, and when you read books about exotic places there's a feeling of traveling to distant lands.”
― Umberto Eco, The Prague Cemetery

“Love, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage.”
― Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

“Most don't deserve your tears... and the ones that do will never make you cry.”
― T. Rafael Cimino, Table 21

“I like work. it fascinates me. I can sit and stare at it for hours”
― jerome k jerome

“Falling in love is a desolating experience, but not when it is with a countryside”
― t h white, England Have My Bones