Guy Browning quotes
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“Libraries are brothels for the mind. Which means that librarians are the madams, greeting punters, understanding their strange tastes and needs, and pimping their books.”
-- Guy BrowningSource : "How to... use a library" by Guy Browning, www.theguardian.com. October 17, 2003.
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“Men love women because they are the loveliest things on God's earth. Women love men because chocolate can't mow the lawn. Some men prefer to love other men. Equally, some women prefer to love other women. There is a word to describe this kind of behaviour. Love.”
-- Guy BrowningSource : Guy Browning (2004). “Never Hit a Jellyfish with a Spade: How to Survive Life's Smaller Challenges”, Gotham
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“Never work for a company that says people are its most important asset. If you wanted to get a mortgage and you said that your only asset was people you would end up living in a tent.”
-- Guy BrowningSource : People, 2006.
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“Growing up is when you understand you get what you give, not what you're given.”
-- Guy BrowningSource : Guy Browning (2004). “Never Hit a Jellyfish with a Spade: How to Survive Life's Smaller Challenges”, Gotham
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“People who get to the top of any organisation are generally dysfunctional human beings who are overachieving, overcompensating or overbearing.”
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“To turn ordinary clothes into gardening clothes, simply mix with compost.”
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“Major cities are divided into two parts; the bits that are in the guidebook and the bits that aren't. If you don't take a guidebook, you'll see a different city.”
-- Guy BrowningSource : 2002 InThe Guardian, 21 May.
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“What makes a date so dreadful is the weight of expectation attached to it. There is every chance that you may meet your soulmate, get married, have children and be buried side by side. There is an equal chance that the person you meet will look as if they've already been buried for some time.”
-- Guy BrowningSource : Guy Browning (2004). “Never Hit a Jellyfish with a Spade: How to Survive Life's Smaller Challenges”, Gotham
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“As the world becomes ever more crowded, so folding will become ever more important.”
-- Guy BrowningSource : "How to... fold things" by Guy Browning, www.theguardian.com. March 3, 2000.
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Source : A. J. Jacobs (2004). “The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World”, p.56, Simon and Schuster
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Source : A. J. Jacobs (2008). “The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible”, p.29, Simon and Schuster
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“You can't be without passion. Passion means the possessiveness to be the best.”
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