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As a precocious teen I dreamed of being Graham Greene. Well as it turned out I never wrote a great novel sadly and I never converted to Catholicism happily but I did do one thing he did. That is in middle age I moved to a seaside town and got into a right barney with the local powers-that-be.
If you wish to make a man look noble your best course is to kill him. What superiority he may have inherited from his race what superiority nature may have personally gifted him with comes out in death.
Quotes By Alexander Smith
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Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others and the delight in the...
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How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening.
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The saddest thing that befalls a soul is when it loses faith in God and woman.
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Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide and she hides it well.
Quotes About Death
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When we are dealing with death we are constantly being dragged down by the...
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I start thinking about life after death. I've got to quit thinking about it...
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What we think of as our sensitivity is only the higher evolution of terror in...
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So here is one of my theories on happiness: we cannot know if we have lived a...
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I'm not on the run from anything and I'm not at all clear about what I'm...
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Planning to play: that's what saving for retirement is today - and it is...
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I was in two episodes playing Christopher Reeve's character's emissary. They...
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The death penalty is being applied in the United States as a fatal lottery.
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As a reward for their efforts however those early Christians were beaten...
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I think that much of this was running in background as I contemplated whether...