Cyril Clarke quotes

“You could say people are living longer because of the decline in religion. Not many people believe in the hereafter, so they keep going.”
-- Cyril Clarke

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“All we have observed is where moths do not spend the day. In 25 years we have found only two betularia on the tree trunks or walls adjacent to our traps (one on an appropriate background and one not), and none elsewhere”
-- Cyril Clarke

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“A country scratching a lazy irritation at sagging doorjambs and late trains, whose greatest attribute is a collective, smelly tolerance, where a chap will put up with almost everything, which means he won't care about anything enough to get out of a chair.A country of public insouciance and private, grubby guilt, where you can believe anything as long as you don't believe it too fervently. A country where the highest aspiration is for a quiet life.”

“I used to believe in forever, but forever's too good to be true”

“The gods have fled, I know. My sense is the gods have always been essentially absent. I do not believe human beings have played games or sports from the beginning merely to summon or to please or to appease the gods. If anthropologists and historians believe that, it is because they believe whatever they have been able to recover about what humankind told the gods humankind was doing. I believe we have played games, and watched games, to imitate the gods, to become godlike in our worship of eachother and, through those moments of transmutation, to know for an instant what the gods know.”

“Facts are what pedantic, dull people have instead of opinions.”

Source : A.A. Gill (2007). “The Angry Island: Hunting the English”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

“Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.”

“I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.”

“Money has no color. If you can build a better mousetrap, it won't matter whether you're black or white. People will buy it.”

“Writing is storytelling and all of us are authors, not just of words but of reality. You are the author of your life, so go out and live! Then never quit writing about it!”

“Never quit, you have to resist to the utmost. 'Til you drop, like a Samurai”

“I don't think that they know fully what's happening with Miss Match so therefore I don't know how many more if any, if the show's even gonna keep going.”