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What a grand, higgledy-piggledy, sensible old place Norwich is!


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To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.



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We cannot get grace from gadgets.



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If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear.



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Just because something is told as a story and that story is part legend or myth, or feat of imagination, does not mean there is no truth in it.



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You never appreciate your anonymity until you don't have it anymore.



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A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours.



Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch.

Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch.



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Get into the music business. This is the business that you have absolutely no requirements. You listen to music, you need no college degree.



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