Dudley Nichols quotes
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“We're the victims of a disease called social prejudice, my child. These dear ladies of the law and order league are scouring out the dregs of the town. C'mon be a glorified wreck like me.”
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“Break up the printing presses and you break up rebellion.”
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“You can make children believe whatever you want, and the children of today are the soldiers and mothers of tomorrow.”
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“Jesus of Nazareth could have chosen simply to express Himself in moral precepts; but like a great poet He chose the form of the parable, wonderful short stories that entertained and clothed the moral precept in an eternal form. It is not sufficient to catch man's mind, you must also catch the imaginative faculties of his mind.”
-- Dudley NicholsSource : "Film and/as literature". Book by John Harrington, p. 238, 1977.
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“My religion is no garment to be put on and off with the weather. You had better know that, all of you. I shall worship as I please and hope for all men to worship as they please in Scotland.”
-- Dudley Nichols
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“The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.”
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“In this world, fear has no place. Only strength respects strength.”
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“A jump jockey has to throw his heart over the fence - and then go over and catch it.”
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“Why build a zoo when we can just put up a fence around Chapel Hill?”
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Source : Katherine Mansfield, Vincent O'Sullivan, Margaret Scott (2008). “The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield: 1922-1923”, Oxford University Press, USA
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