“Sometimes the fresh load of guests would turn up before we had got rid of the previous group, and the chaos was indescribable; the house and garden would be dotted with poets, authors, artists, and playwrights arguing, painting, drinking, typing, and composing. Far from being the ordinary, charming people that Larry had promised, they all turned out to be the most extraordinary eccentrics who were so highbrow that they had difficulty in understanding one another.”
― My Family and Other Animals
― My Family and Other Animals
“I don't think all writers are sad, she said. I think it's the other way around- all sad people write.”
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“Don't quit when you lose. You lose when you quit.”
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“Faith is a gift- and apparently there are a lot of Americans in the return line. There is a hostility toward religious faith today that didn't exist thirty or forty years ago - a creeping secularism that is attempting to push religion to the margins of the culture. The religiphobes have done a bang up job. From portraying people of faith as idiots and Koran burners to casting all clergy as pedophiles and money grubbers, the seculars have done their worst. I have news for them: if wacky sermons, off kilter fashion and scandalous behavior haven't killed religion after all these years, what chance does Richard Dawkins have?”
― Of Thee I Zing: America's Cultural Decline from Muffin Tops to Body Shots
― Of Thee I Zing: America's Cultural Decline from Muffin Tops to Body Shots
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