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Alistair Sinclair
Alistair Sinclair quotes
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“But [Pooh] couldn't sleep. The more he tried to sleep the more he couldn't. He tried counting Sheep, which is sometimes a good way of getting to sleep, and, as that was no good, he tried counting Heffalumps. And that was worse. Because every Heffalump that he counted was making straight for a pot of Pooh's honey, and eating it all. For some minutes he lay there miserably, but when the five hundred and eighty-seventh Heffalump was licking its jaws, and saying to itself, "Very good honey this, I don't know when I've tasted better," Pooh could bear it no longer.”
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“Fatigue is the best pillow.”
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“The manager is by himself. He can't mingle with his players. I enjoyed my players, but I could not socialize with them so I spent a lot of time alone in my hotel room. Those four walls kind of close in on you.”
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“For four to six months at a time, I would barely eat. I lived on a diet of Melba toast, carrots, and black coffee.”
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“Again and again there comes a time in history when the man who dares to say that two and two make four is punished with death. ("The Plague")”
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“There is no such thing as chance or accident; the words merely signify our ignorance of some real and immediate cause.”
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“As soon as by one's own propaganda even a glimpse of right on the other side is admitted, the cause for doubting one's own right is laid.”
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“Completion comes when we not just wake up from all form, from all identification, but when love causes us to re-embrace it all.”
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“Zeus, first cause, prime mover; for what thing without Zeus is done among mortals?”
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“Jealousy, you know, is usually not an affair of causes. It is much more-how shall I say?-fundamental than that. Based on the knowledge that one's love is not returned. And so one goes on waiting, watching, expecting...that the loved one will turn to someone else.”