Tom Helm quotes
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My test of a good novel is dreading to begin the last chapter.
-- Tom Helm
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A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference.
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When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.
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People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
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If you know somebody is going to be awfully annoyed by something you write, that's obviously very satisfying, and if they howl with rage or cry, that's honey.
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Inspiration may be a form of superconsciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness - I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness.
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An American has invented a remote control that will turn off any telly within a 20ft radius. What a marvellous device! What a splendid invention! What a really helpful and improving way of devoting your time to building something that turns off culture. Next week, I'm instigating Burn a Book Week, to encourage even more conversation. I've come up with a fantastic little device which I'll call a box of matches.
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The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief - call it what you will - than any book ever written; it has emptied more churches than all the counterattractions of cinema, motor bicycle and golf course.
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To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also a nation.
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Do not rely completely on any other human being, however dear. We meet all life's greatest tests alone.
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Life is not a multiple choice test, it's an open-book essay exam.
