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“I read ' Treasure Island' for the first time at university. And I started to notice then how unresolved some things were. Later, I realised that Stevenson was interested in sequels, and I wondered whether he would have gone back to it had he lived longer.”
Source : "Andrew Motion: 'The day I stopped being laureate, the poems that had been very few and far between came back to me'". Interview With William Skidelsky, www.theguardian.com. March 16, 2012. 
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“This was why I loved my Grana. Being with her always made me laugh. She accepted life for what it was. She didn’t pretend or put on airs. She was just Grana.”
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“Donald Trump's words are are not funny, his words are poisonous.”
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“Sleep with clean hands, either kept clean all day by integrity or washed clean at night by repentance.”
Source : John Donne (1839). “The Works of John Donne, D.D., Dean of Saint Paul's, 1621-1631: With a Memoir of His Life”, p.218
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“Common sense religion emphasizes the human contributions that are supposed to move the deity. Valid worship always begins with recognition of what God has already done.”
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“I think the mythology of death really ran away with me when I was very young.”
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“I prefer fact to fiction.”
Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
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“I draw hundreds and hundreds of pictures of sort of gnarly looking men, so I don't know what that tells you. People who look like... they're waiting for a sandwich that's never going to come. I don't know what's wrong with me.”
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“Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.”
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“We make our own world by the way in which we think; for we really do live in a world of our own thoughts.”
