Eric Linklater quotes
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“For the scientific acquisition of knowledge is almost as tedious as the routine acquisition of wealth.”
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“All I've got against golf is it takes you so far from the clubhouse.”
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“There won't be any revolution in America ... the people are too clean. They spend all their time changing their shirts and washing themselves. You can't feel fierce and revolutionary in a bathroom.”
-- Eric LinklaterSource : 'Juan in America' (1931) bk. 5, pt. 3
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“It is notorious that we speak no more than half-truths in our ordinary conversation, and even a soliloquy is likely to be affected by the apprehension that walls have ears.”
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Source : A.A. Gill (2008). “Previous Convictions: Assignments from Here and There”, p.80, Simon and Schuster
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“I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.”
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Source : Abraham Coles (1866). “The Microcosm: A Poem, Read Before the Medical Society of New Jersey at Its Centenary Anniversary: with the Address Delivered as President, Jan. 24, 1866”, p.22
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“Abundance is not a number or acquisition. It is the simple recognition of enoughness.”
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Source : Robert Collier (2013). “Riches Within Your Reach”, p.374, Simon and Schuster
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“The foundation of economic development is the acquisition of more productive knowledge.”
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“The natural rhythm of human life is routine punctuated by orgies.”
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“A gambit never becomes sheer routine as long as you fear you may lose the king and pawn ending!”
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