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It's often said that life is strange. But compared to what?


Steve Forbert


#life #often #said #strange

The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous.


Margot Fonteyn


#difference #disastrous #first #i #i have learned

A Royal Commission is a broody hen sitting on a china egg.


Michael Foot


#commission #egg #hen #royal #sitting

So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage-leaf, to make an apple-pie; and at the same time a great she-bear, coming up the street, pops its head into the shop. 'What! no soap?' So he died, and she very imprudently married the barber.


Samuel Foote


#coming #cut #died #garden #great

And I'm a slow writer: five, six hundred words is a good day. That's the reason it took me 20 years to write those million and a half words of the Civil War.


Shelby Foote


#civil war #day #five #good #good day

Longevity conquers scandal every time.


Shelby Foote


#every #every time #longevity #scandal #time

My second book, Follow Me Down had some success, got good critical notices, went into a second printing and things like that, but Shiloh was by far the most successful of those first five novels.


Shelby Foote


#critical #down #far #first #five

Shiloh is a wonderfully dramatic battle. The leader of one side is killed, and the other one is going on to glory, and it was the first great battle. It lasted two days.


Shelby Foote


#days #dramatic #first #glory #going

To be trained in karate is something because karate is a vicious thing. If you are any good at it, you can kill somebody with it. It is a vicious way to fight.


Thomas Foran


#because #fight #good #karate #kill

There is another thing about a kid, if we all remember, that you have an attraction to evil. Evil is exciting and evil is interesting, and plenty of kids have a fascination for it.


Thomas Foran


#another #attraction #evil #exciting #fascination






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